Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the issue was perfectly legitimate, Mr. Grenfell was reduced to making a highly technical attack. He objected to the fact that Sir John Thomas Davies, who is the Director of the Suez Canal Co. and therefore associated with His Majesty's Government, is announced as a Director of the new British Ford...
Colombia's Lt. Benny. Lieutenant Benjamin Mendez, young Colombian flyer, affectionately called "Benny" at the Curtiss Flying Field where he trained, was still at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, last week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired...
Costa Rica's Gonzales. G. Gonzalez, son of Costa Rica's President Cleto Gonzalez, pleaded, argued, cajoled with Baxter Douglas Boozer and Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend to fly to Costa Rica. Young Gonzalez wants to go along, to spend Christmas at the Costa Rican presidential palace. But aboard the steamship they would not promise him the trip. There might be an accident; he might be killed. The father Gonzalez would be pained, Costa Ricans vexed...
Died. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 81, able Manhattan journalist (Tribune, Evening Post, Globe, 1870-1905), Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1905-14), Roosevelt biographer; suddenly; in Manhattan...
...Government's main sources of revenue are Customs, Internal Revenue and such miscellaneous income as payments by foreign debtors and tolls from the Panama Canal. In his estimates of the country's income for fiscal 1929 and 1930, Secretary Mellon figured that Customs would increase 14 millions over 1928, to an annual total of 582 millions. Internal Revenue is figured for a drop of 52 millions in 1929 and eight more millions in 1930. The income tax provides the bulk of Internal Revenue. Income tax figures...