Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Panama Canal, inland waterway of mighty ships, might well have given a watery chuckle and gurgle; for some profound reason all U. S. officialdom seemed suddenly anxious to view...
...Annual report of the League of Nations "white slavery" Committee* revealed that the Panama Canal Zone is now one of the chief headquarters of this international traffic. Portugal was stigmatized because the Portuguese law still allows girls as young as 14 years to be registered and licensed. The Mediterranean lands are declared the chief source of "white slaves," and Latin America is the principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenanci...
...stamped yellow fever out of the Panama Canal Zone...
...what general direction do you travel in going from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama Canal...
Among those who are familiar with the history of the construction of the Panama Canal, credit for the eradication of yellow fever from the Isthmus is given principally to the late General W. C. Gorgas. It detracts nothing from the honor due General Goethals as a great engineer, a great organizer and a great executive, to give General Gorgas the honor due him, and in the name of the thousands of his fellow countrymen who love and respect his memory, I ask that you will...