Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canal Protected On Both Sides...
Colonel Kilbourne then took up a detailed discussion of the strategic power of the geographical situation of the United States, particularly with reference to the Panama Canal. He dismissed completely the possibility of an attack from the east, showing that our control of the Caribbean is so complete that it would be "military suicide" for any other national to attempt to attack the canal from that side...
...situation in the Pacific is just as strong, he declared. "A major attack from the west against the canal would be a 'strategic absurdity' as long as we held Hawaii," he said, "unless the attacking national had an ally on the west coast of South America." The possibilities of such an alliance were very remote, in his opinion, because of the improved relations between South America and the United States which have existed since the government paid a large sum of money to Colombia for the loss of Panama...
...midshipmen of the Naval Academy will take them far a-water. Admiral Eberle has issued orders. The battle- ships Arkansas, Utah and New York will arrive off Annapolis on May 30. On June 6, the great cruise begins, down the Atlantic Coast and through the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle, then all the way back. Fifty-two days at sea, 39 days in port, 12,060 miles of travel will make up the itinerary...
...Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, set sail yesterday from Booth Bay for Bermuda, the French West Indies, the Caribbean Sea and the coasts of South America. The romantic cruise is to last from five months to a year, and if all goes well, will include a trip through the Panama Canal and up to Los Angeles galore in Hallett and his companion, Henry Rowland of Washington, D. C., turn their 41-foot ketch toward home again...