Word: canale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reginald Heber Gooden left his native California to take charge of a Protestant Episcopal parish in Cuba. Last week in Los Angeles, he was consecrated Bishop of the Panama Canal Zone-thereby became a multiple religious titleholder. He is the church's youngest bishop (35), its first born in California, its only bishop who is an active bishop's son (his father is Suffragan Bishop Robert B. Gooden of Los Angeles...
...Allies it would be no easy task. Before their full strength could be brought to bear, troops and supplies must be moved from Europe (16,000 miles via the Panama Canal, 13,000 miles by ship and train via New York and San Francisco). Even more difficult than moving would be the job of finding places to base them. The Philippines, most convenient and adequate staging area, are 1,350 miles from the Japanese homeland...
Then he did some sharpshooting at Pan Am's own operations. Competition, said he, is better than monopoly because it is cheaper. Item: operating costs on Pan Am's western division, which flies from Brownsville, Tex. to Mexico City, the Canal Zone and Trinidad, were $1.75 per revenue mile in 1940. Operating costs for American Airlines, on its routes from El Paso and Dallas to Mexico City, were 83.9? a revenue mile in 1943, when all airline costs were admittedly higher...
...Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus!" Inhabitants of the haughty International Settlement regarded the Mission area at South Gate as a cross between the frontier and a zoo. The so-called "honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
...Paris radio last week reported that "Italian Partisans" had blown up famed Rialto Bridge (1591), on Venice's Grand Canal...