Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government of the Republic of Panama received intimation from the U. S. Government, through the Panama Commission which is in Washington for the purpose of negotiating a new treaty between the two republics relative to the Panama Canal, that the Taft agreements on the Panama Canal Zone would be extended for one month from May 1, the time of normal expiration...
...Comte de Bresson brought before Parliament a proposal to construct canals running from St. Nazaire, the French port, to Switzerland and linking up with the great Central European canals. If adopted the canal would afford continuous water traffic from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, across France and along the Danube. The brain of Voltaire, famed cynic, philosopher, friend of Frederick the Great, grandfather of rationalism and the French Revolution, was offered the Comédie Française as a gift by a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed the body of the great writer. The gift will...
...mile gap completed, the road will furnish a direct route from the east coast across Central America to Touseca Bay on the Pacific shore, where the U. S. Government already has concessions for the establishment of a naval base, to protect the Pacific end of the Panama Canal...
With the arrival in Boston of three shells consigned to the University by boatbuilders in the State of Washington, via the Panama canal, special plans have been made to insure the safe arrival of these boats, two of which are for the University, and the other for Gioton, in Newell boathouse...
...President personally hung the Congressional Medal of Honor around the neck of Henry Breault, torpedoman, second class, U. S. N. On Oct. 28, 1923, Breault was aboard the submarine O-5 sunk in Limon Bay off the Panama Canal in collision with the merchantship Abangares. He reached the deck before the submarine sank, discovered that one of his comrades was trapped below. He rushed down, shut a water-tight door and remained with his shipmate until the submarine was raised by a salvage party 38 hours later...