Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, also from Saguenay, of how most of Canada's aluminum industry had been put out of action for weeks to come. The stoppage occurred at the $150,000,000 Aluminium, Ltd. plant at Arvida which, using cheap water power to process ship-borne bauxite ore from British Guiana, is now turning out enough ingot aluminum for 50,000 airplanes a year, and has become the second biggest single aluminum-production center in the Western Hemi sphere...
...President also revealed that "substantial" U.S. forces had been sent to the new Trinidad and British Guiana bases...
...naval bases there. The strike was settled, but without improving the ill feeling between natives, British residents and U.S. personnel. High-ranking U.S. Army officers who toured the southern bases last fortnight felt that they were quietly snubbed by the British Governors of Trinidad and British Guiana. In Trinidad and elsewhere in the Caribbean, cooperation between U.S. and local authorities is negligible or negative, morale is low among U.S. troops, the venereal rate is high and even prostitutes have sextupled their prices...
Last week, as the U.S. sped work on its Caribbean rampart, from Bermuda to British Guiana, the U.S. Navy was busy on further defenses to the Panama Canal. While the first U.S. draft of soldiers for the Lend-Lease base in Bermuda shoved off from Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, commanding the Fifteenth (Canal Zone) Naval District, told newsmen of growing dumps of supplies and equipment at Balboa, the great naval base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal...
...chain of Atlantic defense sites on which the U.S. is to build bases now reaches from Greenland to British Guiana. In a sweeping agreement with the Danish Minister in Washington last week, the U.S. took over protection of the world's biggest island, moved the U.S.'s outermost line of potential defenses 900 miles nearer Europe, only three miles from the Nazi war zone. Yet in a week of staggering reverses and calamities, the U.S. could draw one lesson clearly: the new base sites should have been secured long ago, so that instead of sites we would have...