Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceed to Haiti, San Domingo. Porto Rica, then south through the West Indies to Trinidad where they will visit the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. From there their course will be west through the Dutch Lesser Antilles to Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama. They will stop in the Panama Canal Zone for Professor Barbour's annual inspection of the Barro Colorado Island Tropical Research Station of the Institute for Research in Tropical America, of which Mr. Barbour is Chairman...
...planned to visit the various tropical agricultural gardens and several of the smaller islands, not touched by the regular trade routes, and, therefore, not visited by naturalists for many years. They hope to collect specimens of plants and seeds for introduction in the experimental stations at Summit, Canal Zone, Tela, Honduras, and the Harvard Gardens in Cuba, and zoological specimens for the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. They will return to the United States about the middle...
...Panama Canal, last week, the U. S. Battle Fleet held its Winter maneuvers. The grey, lowering ships formed precise patterns on the rolling waters. Blue-coated, brass-buttoned tacticians directed and studied these patterns. Now the vessels drove ahead in files, now they spread out in phalanges. Twenty airplanes were catapulted from the decks, droned ahead to find the "enemy." They returned to report; the patterns were changed. Certain formations meant probable success, others probable disaster. Smoke billowed from funnels, gigantic guns stirred in their turrets, officers peered through their binoculars, made marks on charts, hoisted shining flags and sent...
...Mayor James J. Walker, of Manhattan, was presented a bat by certain denizens of the Panama Canal Zone with the request that he give the bat to famed baseball player Babe Ruth. The bat, made out of a lignum-vitae railroad tie, was four ounces over weight. Babe Ruth last week in a Manhattan gymnasium boxed famed musician Paul Whiteman...
Pilot Becker, ill, was quarantined in Port-au-Prince. The rest went to Panama, inspected submarine bases, game preserves, laboratories, spied on the canal from the sky. After ten days Pilot Becker, convalescent, joined his companions in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He flew from Port-au-Prince in 90 minutes. The others motored the same distance in nine hours. At the capitol they were wined and dined by President Horacio Vasquez. Later Daughter Alicia went bathing, kicked a sea porcupine which retaliated with a dozen barbs to the foot. A native Indian shaman extracted most of them with...