Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Common desires expressed by MM. Diaz, Moncada & Chamorre were, a) To retain some U. S. Marines to continue training the Nicaraguan national guard; b) to persuade the U. S. soon to build the long-planned interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, for which a treaty and $3,000,000 have already been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with...
...spins its tracks. Every passenger, dining on a crack New York-Philadelphia train, knows he is eating Pennsy food, sitting on a Pennsy chair, riding in a Pennsy car on Pennsy wheels. But not every passenger knows he is riding over the lines of the United New Jersey Railroad & Canal...
...natural home" is the ocean. Nor was it paradoxical for a railroader like Mr. Loree to assert that, besides another trans-Appalachian railroad line, more inland waterways are needed by the U. S. for national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk, Va. A link needed to join up present. parts of this system is a 31-mile canal from the Delaware River to the Raritan across New Jersey...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
...conferring with Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard (near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, then either over the Andes by train or back to Panama and through the Canal on the Maryland, to the Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela. Duration: two months. Object: goodwill, trade relations, discovery, experience, inspection of U. S. consulates and commercial attaches...