Word: canales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intolerable Tailtwister. Ever since her spanking defeat by Israel three years ago, Egypt, despite repeated protests, has stopped all vessels moving through the Suez Canal that might be going to Israeli ports. When the Labor government's Foreign Secretary, Herbert Morrison, responding to a Tory question, revealed the details of this incident last week, Commons exploded. Coming on top of Britain's humiliation in Iran, it seemed a tailtwister that the British lion did not have to suffer in silence. Asked the Tories' second-in-command, Anthony Eden: "Is not the real lesson of all this that...
...main business of transiting ships from ocean to ocean and collecting tolls, the U.S. operates many auxiliary projects: railroads, steamships, commissaries, power plants, theaters. Some have been run by an efficient Government-owned corporation called the Panama Railroad Co., some by a sprawling Government agency called the Panama Canal. In the reshuffle, all business functions, including ship transits, were put under the railroad's corporate charter, leaving only Canal Zone civil government to bureaucrats. The expanded corporation, called the Panama Canal Co., must pay the U.S. Treasury 1.95% on the Government's net investment-the only Government enterprise...
...Prepared quietly to evacuate all British nationals from Iran in case they were attacked. The British East Indies fleet was reported standing by; nearly 100 air transports were ready in the Suez Canal zone: they could carry British troops from Cyprus and Port Said to Abadan in five hours. But, said a Foreign Office spokesman: "There will be no order to fly those troops over unless and until disorder breaks...
Last week Tokyo's worried city fathers decided to put up anti-suicide signs on canal and river banks, bridges, rail-crossings in the capital. Proposed new appeal to the life-weary: "Come and have a heart-to-heart chat at your public welfare office...
...where he helped earn his way by peddling candy in dormitories, played trumpet in the school band; in 1923, he entered the Army Air Service, worked up the peacetime ladder; on the eve of Pearl Harbor, he was deputy chief of staff, Sixth Air Force at Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone...