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Most of the still undeveloped sites will rate as service stations for naval, air and land forces. Thus Bermuda and Jamaica are to be major service stations (naval and air); Antigua and St. Lucia are to be secondary ones (for air). Three of the links in the chain will be much more than service stations. Trinidad, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone will be the key positions...
Last week, as the U.S. sped work on its Caribbean rampart, from Bermuda to British Guiana, the U.S. Navy was busy on further defenses to the Panama Canal. While the first U.S. draft of soldiers for the Lend-Lease base in Bermuda shoved off from Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, commanding the Fifteenth (Canal Zone) Naval District, told newsmen of growing dumps of supplies and equipment at Balboa, the great naval base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal...
...agreement, a protocol and an exchange of notes signed in London by plenipotentiaries of the U. S. and Great Britain. The agreement formalized the lease to the U. S. of sites for naval and air bases in Newfoundland (six pieces of land, one of them 2,610 acres); Bermuda (five parcels of land, totaling 545 acres); Jamaica (six areas of land and water, totaling 55 sq. mi. and 275 acres); St. Lucia (more than 1,255 acres); Antigua (1.4 sq. mi. and 430 acres); Trinidad (one area...
...years ago the Governor of Bermuda quit because he couldn't have a car. Last week his successor, Lieut. General Sir Denis Bernard, fell off his bicycle and hurt his head...
...Clipper was trying a new route. For the first time she dipped far south of her usual Lisbon-Azores-Bermuda route, went via Portuguese Guinea and Trinidad. The southern route was nearly twice as long; yet the Clipper carried double her usual load of men and mails for the U. S. Reason: instead of carrying extra fuel to buck wintry, 50-mile westerlies, the plane coasted along on a firm east wind. It was the trade wind, friend of mariners since Columbus...