Word: waterway
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...there were affecting shots of injured children and of surgeons working on the wounded by flashlight, and Narrator Greene would ask plaintively: "How many bombs will it take to destroy the tens of thousands of people who move rivers with their hands?" Four peasant girls worked cheerfully at a waterway in clothes that seemed more for Sunday than for hard labor. At the fade, a genial "Uncle Ho" was seen touring among his admiring people...
...Changes in the Design School must parallel changes in life," Sert said. "With congestion, pollution, and unfit housing in our cities, the architect must team with a cleaned-up waterway--and visions of the utopian sewer society of the future looms before his listeners...
...Hope to European markets but has also caused such a price-boosting scramble to charter additional ships that the cost of hauling crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam has jumped from $2.90 to $18.60 a ton. Salvage experts figure that the handful of scuttled ships blocking the waterway could be cleared away in a month, but silting from its sandy banks may require fresh dredging. Oilmen glumly predict that Egypt's Nasser will keep the artery closed at least until year's end and perhaps indefinitely. He can afford to sacrifice his chief source of foreign...
...comes in by sea. Haiphong is a "convenience rather than a necessity" for imports, and even if all 400 miles of North Vietnamese coast could be interdicted, "North Viet Nam would still be able to import over 8,400 tons a day by road, rail and waterway." McNamara noted that the U.S. had long ago destroyed Haiphong's petroleum off-loading facilities. As a result, Hanoi now unloads petroleum from tankers sitting offshore. Barges float the fuel in by night, and Hanoi has "no evidence of an oil shortage...
...late 1966, Premier Ky promised to reopen the waterway no later than May 31. In a determined effort to make good, he sent an army battalion and six 40-man rural-development teams into hamlets along the canal to combat Viet Cong influence. The V.C. countered by murdering local officials, and Ky failed to make his May deadline: parts of the canal are still intermittently under V.C. control...