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...years ago a small army of workmen moved in. They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
Workers, confident they would get from the Navy what management had refused them, jubilantly went back to work. Fiscal arrangements, operating methods remained to be figured out, but the management reassuringly offered its knowledge and experience, turned real estate, buildings, ships and unperformed contracts, lock, stock & barrel, over to Navy's Knox; just compensation could be figured out later...
...former looked like a lock of death -to which the Germans seemed to hold the key. The latter was a deadlock of inanities...
...Attention: the keys turn in the lock, but for the affair of 300 square meters it is necessary to wait yet a few days...
...Japanese freighters heading for the Canal's Caribbean entrance hove to offshore, hung idly in the thick July heat. Other ships went through but their turn never came. To protests the War Department said: so sorry (taking no chances on one of them blowing up in a lock), but the Canal was undergoing repairs. Finally the Japanese freighters gave up, plowed south on the 19,000-mile voyage around Cape Horn...