Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy is likewise a weapon of defense. We have a foreign commerce . . . outlying territory . . . long stretches . . . the richest cities in the world ... a large population . . . the greatest treasure ever bestowed upon any people ... an international duty of defending the Panama Canal...
...ever built in the U. S., last week was practically ready for experimental trips. By Jan. 28 workmen will have completed her fittings and she will sail, with 751 passengers filling every one of her cabins, from New York to California ports by way of Havana and the Panama Canal...
Sirs: You have overlooked New Orleans! I read with interest the article "In Office Buildings," under your PROGRESS column† issue of Nov. 28. In your footnote you give a list of cities other than New York which have equipped these new elevators in office buildings. The Canal Bank & Trust Company, New Orleans, has just completed its 18-story bank and office building, in which the Otis Elevator Co. has installed eleven elevators of the type described by you in your article. Just to keep the records straight. H. B. CAPLAN...
...Belisario Porras, onetime (1918-20; 1924) president of Panama, last week announced he would cause a statue of Theodore Roosevelt by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry Payne) Whitney, to be erected at Culebra Cut, on the Panama Canal. It was easy to foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue...
Under a permit dated March 3, 1925, Illinois and its Chicago sanitary district have been drawing some 8,500 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Michigan, to flush away Chicago's sewage through a drainage canal emptying into the Des Plaines River which enters the Illinois River, which enters the Mississippi. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, complaining that Great Lakes levels were injuriously lowered by this leak at Chicago, sued to restrain Illinois in the U. S. Supreme Court. To Illinois' aid came Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. These co-defendants...