Word: canal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...islands were annexed to put their sugar production inside the U. S. tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire-builder; he enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut...
...Army. To bulwark its empire the U. S. has posted 14,228 Army officers and men in Hawaii, 8,784 in the Canal Zone, 5,770 (exclusive of the Scouts) in the Philippines, 1,012 at Tientsin, China. One hundred and fifty U. S. Army engineers are spending Christmas surveying a new canal route across Nicaragua...
...this latest of his canvasses, Stanford spreads the New York and Canton of the 18th and the long, arduous miles of water between the two before the building of the Panama Canal and the coming of steam changed these miles hardly less than Canton and New York have changed since those early days of the last century...
...Panama Canal set new records for the year: 7,029 transits, $27,128,889 in tolls; 30,663,006 cargo tons carried. A battalion of engineers will be sent to Nicaragua "before the next dry season" to resurvey and study the proposed canal route across that country...
DISRAELI (George Arliss)?Audible waxwork of the Suez Canal difficulties...