Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coast Guard was ready to take up the Christmas challenge of the liquor ships and that a new 100-foot patrol boat was due to arrive in New York during this week. A dozen more are expected from the Great Lakes region, and will be brought through the Erie Canal before the ice forms...
Blood red the flag of Communism flew over Panama City. Rents had been high, wages low. Striking tenants and laborers swarmed in thousands through the streets, and frightened President Chiari of Panama into calling for U. S. troops from the Canal Zone...
...Pacific end of the Panama Canal are Panama City (native) and Balboa (U. S.) ; at the Atlantic end are Colon (native) and Christobel...
...Yacht Mayflower sailing home from Swampscott with the presidential silver, china and servitors, making her way across Massachusetts Bay toward the Cape Cod Canal, was almost rammed by the liner Martha Washington. The Mayflower cut across the liner's bow and the Martha Washington was obliged to order full speed astern...
...Corpron, a U. S missionary, was seized by soldiers near Gaishow charged with carrying concealed weapons because he had a revolver on his launch in which he was traveling on the Grand Canal. His passport was scorned, his hands were tied behind his back, he was beaten and jeered at. Finally an officer gave him a grilling examination and he was released, outraged...