Word: canalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Flood control on the Mississippi and Colorado Rivers; construction of navigable waterways from the Great Lakes to the Gulf; agreement with Canada on the St. Lawrence waterway; development of the Mississippi Basin; Federal purchase of the Cape Cod Canal...
...Officers 1,065 Enlisted Men 128,223 Total 140,943* Army Nurses 675 West Point Cadets 666 Contract Surgeons 30 Army Field Clerks 220 Quartermaster Field Clerks 167 Grand Total 142,701* The distribution of the Army was: Continental U.S. 104,286 Hawaii 13,096 Phillipines 11,808 Panama Canal Zone 8,880 China 977 Alaska 393 Europe (Graves Registration Service) 5 Military Attaches...
...Louisianian by birth, son of a Confederate captain of cavalry, he has lived with the Marine Corps through its growth and travails. During the Spanish War, he commanded the Marine Guard first on the Cincinnati, then on the Massachusetts. With 400 men, he camped in the Panama Canal Zone, in 1903-04, while Panama extracted her freedom from Colombia. In the Cuban revolution of 1912, he commanded the U. S. troops who pacified the district of Santiago. In 1914, he took part in the capture of Vera Cruz...
...season of reports-official, annual, Government reports-which is at its height during December of each year, was inaugurated by the appearance of the official report on the Panama Canal, rendered through the War Department by Governor Jay J. Morrow, who is just retiring. The report was, as usual, for the fiscal year-ended June 30, last. It showed an increase of traffic through the Canal of 38.7% over the previous year. A great part of this was due to large shipments of oil from California. Deducting all this temporary boom-oil, however, canal traffic increased 16.4%. Shipping tolls aggregated...
...American commercial vessels pay toll. During President Taft's Administration a law was passed exempting U. S. vessels in coastwise trade from toll, but Great Britain objected that this was a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty under which the U. S., formerly a partner in the canal business with Great Britain, acquired sole rights in the project and promised equal treatment to "all nations." Elihu Root, then a Senator, held that the law violated our treaty promise. President Wilson and Ambassador Page took the same attitude. In the Spring of 1914. the President asked that...