Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anthony Eden's busiest week since winning the British general election last May. Constantly on the move, from his country estate at Chequers to the English Channel, then north to the Scottish harbors, the Prime Minister talked and listened respectfully to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who man Britain's armed services. Eden's object was to brief himself on the problems-and possibilities-of streamlining British defenses at a saving to the harassed Treasury (see above...
Eden, bundled up in a flying suit and flight helmet, climbed the narrow ladder into the belly of one of the Vulcans, and took off in a whoosh of jet exhaust. The Prime Minister directed the huge aircraft as far as the English Channel, took over the controls for one long stretch, then landed at an airport near his home in London. "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," said Eden scrambling out. "It was as smooth as a magic carpet...
FLOOD-STRICKEN INDUSTRY in the Northeastern states will get defense contracts. Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming has directed Government agencies to channel new contracts to disaster areas wherever possible, thus make more jobs in undamaged factories...
...cargo pilot, John Hackett, a burly man with a magnificent R.A.F. mustache, regularly hops across the English Channel a dozen or more times a day. He longed for a longer ride. One sunup last week, Hackett took off from London Airport, got a course from his navigator, Peter Moneypenny, and aimed his twin-jet Canberra bomber westward. Seven hours and 30 minutes later he put down at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. While newsreel cameras whirled, Hackett and Moneypenny spent 35 minutes on the ground, getting themselves and their plane refueled. Aided by tail winds, the Canberra arrived back...
...hours after the raid, three I.R.A. men were picked up but the truck they were driving contained only a portion of the 80,000 rounds of stolen ammunition. Scotland Yard got its second, break when an informer phoned from a tenement district in north London called the "Irish Channel'' because of the number of Irish immigrants resident there...