Word: ama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Coast went Joseph P. Ryan, big, hard-boiled president of I. L. A. He permitted a temporary lifting of the embargo on Alaskan shipping out of Seattle because of a threatened food short age. But no truce was extended to the Grace Line, to Luckenbach, Dollar or Pan ama Pacific. Freight had to be carried by rail from San Francisco to Seattle and Portland. The Japanese-owned N. Y. K. Line, with Japanese crews, was permitted to navigate at will, but striking longshore men would not touch its cargoes. Least affected city was Los Angeles, which consequently enjoyed...
...character, Man is hero of Van Loon's Geography. He is shown against an economic and geographic background, his character and achievements modified by the contours of his country, the bias of a mountain race, the tendency of a trade route. Not pretending to be anything but a "poor ama-teur," Author Van Loon makes a blanket apology for statistical inaccuracies, explains that the authorities he has had to depend upon contradict themselves. Doubtless few professional geographers will shoot a sitting bird by reading Van Loon's Geography for mistakes; but even a fellow-amateur may hit on some...
With not one of the 140 ships engaged lost and not one of the 35,900 officers and men scratched, the fleets returned to Pan ama for a post-mortem of their encounter. A final verdict had still to be rendered by Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, Commander-in-Chief of all U. S. fleets, who, aboard the flagship Texas, umpired the war game with the assistance of a score of rear-admirals...
...Central Plaza of Pan ama City, Senor Harmodio Arias, No. 1 revolutionist and Prime Minister, was sworn in by the Supreme Court as "Pro visional President," pending the arrival of President Alfaro from Washington...