Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ghost of the Florida Ship Canal, ten years older, stalked the U.S. Senate last week. It was no longer a $200,000,000 Presidential pump-priming scheme. With its boondoggling finery removed, the great dead ditch was now a $44,000,000 barge canal with a wartime-living excuse: to mitigate the East Coast oil shortage. But it raised the same old political ruckus-and the pros & cons were still dead white and coal black...
...weapon, vitalizing now what must be considered a future base of operations. After the war let's recover our gold from the Japs with compound interest. If air transportation is unavailable, one pack train of gold through Tibet will run the scheme for a year. . . . The possible interest on the investment far exceeds that being obtained in Fort Knox vaults...
...some time there had been public agitation in Britain and the U.S. for setting up a joint command, under one man who would be the anti-submarine boss. Last week Secretary Knox disclosed that the Allies had rejected joint command and had chosen in its place a scheme which they thought would work even better...
...Tactic. But most important of all, the conferees devised a tactic which will make it possible for the Allies to use their equipment offensively against the U-boat, not passively and defensively. The tactic was designed to counter the U-boat scheme of hunting in wolf packs...
Fortnight after the Japs lost 22 ships in the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15), the Japanese Government announced by radio that all Japanese soldiers would be taught how to swim. "The scheme has been prompted," said Tokyo Radio, "by the fact that war operations in Greater East Asia are closely connected with water...