Word: simonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work went on faster than before with free labor and the rapid development of steam-powered excavators. De Lesseps' real roadblocks lay not in the sand and rock of the Sinai desert but in the chancellories and salons of Europe. In France envious rivals-including the Saint-Simonian Socialists-tried to take the canal away from De Lesseps. In London successive British governments first derided the idea, then worked to block construction of the canal, then bought shares in it, and finally occupied Egypt to secure military control of the new route to India. De Lesseps spent as much...