Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financier is Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Home, a Director of the Suez Canal Co., of Lloyd's Bank, and of the Great Western Railway Co. During 1921-22 Sir Robert became the "complete financier" by achieving the office of British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Last week he boldly said that Airman Hinklers flight constitutes "the greatest single achievement in the history of aviation." He added that Airman Hinkler has "outclassed" Airman Lindbergh...
...Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little south of Cuba, then off Jamaica. The trade winds fanned her ahead at a 90 m. p. h. scoot, and at last she, the airship Los Angeles, was at her goal, France Field, Panama Canal Zone. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl had put his airboat across 2,265 miles in 40 hours, her longest non-stop flight since she left Germany (TIME...
...ensued a modest modicum of progress: ¶ The text of a Pan-American Aviation Treaty was drafted. A vital clause confirms to the U. S. a right to make treaties with the Republic of Panama in such fashion as to exclude foreign air snoopers from the vicinity of the Canal. The treaty as a whole sponsors the "establishment and operation of practicable inter-American aerial lines and terminals...
...order to jam through the Canal protecting clause, U. S. Delegate Henry Prather Fletcher (also U. S. Ambassador to Italy) was obliged to declare roundly...
...make no secret of our desire to control the Panama Canal in inter-American relations. The United States does not want a provision that might jeopardize our communications, east, west, north, south, in any attack from the air." ¶ The ambitious project of founding a "Pan-American League of Nations" by endowing the Pan-American Union- with political powers was sacked in subcommittee and finally in committee by an adverse vote in the ratio of two to one. ¶ The Conference solemnly and gallantly assembled to hear speeches in behalf of Pan-American womanhood...