Word: canale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also a 20th-century ace, adept at machine-gunning troops from his plane in daring swoops and dives directly over the trenches. Romantic Venice was only a few minutes flight from the front, and Italian beauties got the greatest thrills of their lives, bedding in palaces beside the Grand Canal with a national hero who in fact flew off at dawn to fight the Austrians, returned for lunch or dinner at the latest...
...orange-colored hair showed traces of dye, was arrested on the Europa with several letters she had been engaged to deliver, including one offering $1,000 for information about the Navy aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Rumrich and Glaser had both been stationed during their Army service in the Canal Zone. Only document of importance which it was suggested they might have stolen was a copy of the secret codes of the Air Service, and Army authorities doubted that...
...discussion of some aspects of American naval policy, Baxter warned that "they can't get us by land, but they can get us by air." Against this danger he advocated a ring of defense extending from the Aleutian Islands, through the Sandwich Islands and Samoa to the Panama Canal Zone...
Alfaro was president of Panama 1931-32, and minister to the United States 1922-30, and 1932-37. A distinguished jurist, he served on the commission on the codification of law, Panama, 1913; as Panamanian judge in the Mixed Claims Commission dealing with expropriations for the Panama Canal, 1915; as Secretary of Government and Justice, Panama, 1918-22; and as a member of the Hague Court...
Founded on waterpower sites controlled by Alexander Hamilton, Passaic, N. J. developed into a beehive of small enterprise. One small Passaic enterprise is Canal Co., a neckwear shop employing 40 people and owned by one Max Brenner and the Brothers Tuckman, Jack & Kenneth. Monopolist Hamilton must have started in his grave last week when Canal Co. locked out its employes until they joined the union (C. I. O.'s Textile Workers' Organizing Committee". The company stated: "We are paying union wages and we sell our products to union houses, so we see no reason why ours should...