Word: canale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful...
...Sikorsky had come up from Santiago, making a land stop at Guayaquil (Ecuador), a water stop at Tumaco (Colombia), heading for its final land stop at Cristobal in the Canal Zone. Pilot Stephen Dunn, Wartime Navy flyer and six-year veteran on P.A.G. runs, approached the field through thick cloud and heavy rain, passed over the zone of silence extending straight up from the field's radio beacon, radioed that he was backtracking to make a landing. It seemed most likely that while he was spiraling down, the sea loomed up at him too suddenly through the murk...
...Treaty is one of "Military Alliance/' intended to flatter Egyptians with the notion that they are held in esteem by the British as allies on equal terms. Held the Egyptians continue to be, for Britain is to retain 10,000 troops in the Suez Canal zone and British bombing planes have the right to operate freely over any part of Egypt-with Egyptian bombing planes given for the first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base at Alexandria, pays rent. But Egyptians agree to build and pay for an entire system...
...cavalry gelding with "all his joints gone and very lame in the near-fore and near-hind." They were two survivors of 80,000 British Army horses and mules sold by the British Government to Belgium in 1919, put to work in mines, hitched to produce-wagons and canal-barges. Coming on these pictures most Britons were more convinced than ever that "no damned Froggie knows how to treat a horse...
...revolving doors," giving fellow newshawks such Indian-style nicknames as Captain-in-Case-of-War Perkins. He is "a Protestant in politics and a Democrat in religion," lives in Hamburg, N. Y., is descended from a onetime heavyweight champion of the Erie Canal...