Word: canale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what the fundamental naval policy of this country is," proceeded to read it. The bill defined the fundamental naval policy of the U. S. to be maintaining a Navy adequate to afford "protection to the coastline in both oceans at one and the same time; to protect the Panama Canal, Alaska, Hawaii and our insular possessions; . . . to guarantee our national security, but not aggression; . . . provide a defense that will keep any potential enemy away from our shores...
...Suez Canal Co.: a silver table service, an antique Turkish watch...
...London last week everyone was complaining "the sun has not been out since before Christmas." In Venice thermometers crawled down below freezing, stayed there for four consecutive days, while the Grand Canal froze solid. One day it cost $20,000 to clear the snow from Berlin's streets, a rare event, for special gangs of street sweepers rarely have to be employed in the German capital. But while storms and blizzards raged over all Europe last week, the greatest weather-made sensation broke on the Black...
...returning to exile in Colombia. Before long, tropical colors had the same psychopathic effect on Farson as well. The South American neuroses of other foreigners were as bad or worse. The rare visitor able to cope with South American life seemed to Farson an even stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully, gasped for breath in the 12,000-ft. altitudes of the Andes. The farther he went...
Included in the foreign representation are: Japan, Philippines, India, Turkey, Mexico, Bahama Islands, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Channel Islands, Ceylon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Siam, South Africa, Venezuela and Wales...