Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward the Pacific. In it, crossing the Isthmus of Panama, sat a quiet erect gentleman of 73. No one had paid much attention to him when he left his ship at Cristobal, but along the railway, at various stops, men who had worked 20 years or more in the Canal Zone, looked at him intently, approached, looked again to make sure, and then said, with great respect: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it?" Or, "I don't s'pose you remember me, Mr. Stevens, but I'm. . . ." One of the oldtimers went to the telephone and rang...
...almost 20 years since he had been there. It was characteristic that he had made no fuss about going back. Doubtless he subscribed to the popular belief that it was his successor, General George Washington Goethals, who "put the Canal through." And indeed General Goethals did: he conquered that greatest foe of his predecessors, yellow fever, so that the blue prints might come true. But to the blue print aspect of the Canal no man contributed more than John F. Stevens did during his regime, from June, 1905, to April, 1907. Before he resigned President Taft had named him "Father...
Besides the oldtimers of the Canal Zone, many a Russian might recognize Mr. Stevens should he revisit Siberia. He was president of the interallied technical board which improved trans-Asian travel during and after the War. They would know him, perhaps, in West Gardiner, Me., where he was born, "chock full of energy." They might know him almost anywhere between the Mississippi and the Pacific, especially in the Northwest, where he laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge...
...action lends color to the report that he is controlled by "vested interests", New York bankers in particular. Two weeks ago 1000 additional Marines were dispatched to aid Admiral Latimer. In their efforts to protect American lives and property and the surveyors' stages that are the proposed Nicaraguan Canal they have occupied two positions of vital strategic importance toward which the Liberals were aiming...
...skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only, in his scholarly way, described one. The formula was enough to discourage the most boldfaced charlatan that ever sold canal water for a cureall. Elixir of life contains: "That which is tempered in the fourth degree . . . gold "That which swims in the sea . . . pearl. "The thing that grows in the air . . . a flower. "That which is cast up by the sea . . . ambergris. "A plant of India . . . aloe. "That which...