Word: colon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signed May 18, the agreement legalized the status of the U.S. air base at Rio Hato; granted the U.S. other bases' within Panama; allowed U.S. use of adjacent waters. In return, the U.S. gives over building lots worth $11,500,000 in Colon and Panama City; delivers American-built water and sewer systems in the two cities; pays off $2,700,000 of Panama indebtedness incurred in building a highway to Rio Hato...
Badman Bogart has been cashiered from the U.S. Army for theft. But it soon becomes apparent that this was merely a ruse to put him to work in Army Intelligence. His quarry is Sociologist Greenstreet, brain of a Japanese plot to bomb the Panama Canal. At Colon, nerveless Hero Bogart busts the plot, shoots down the Japanese bomber with a captured machine gun, and all ends gruesomely...
What Leicester Hemingway, adventurous younger brother of Author Ernest Hemingway, discovered and warned the U.S. about in a Reader's Digest article back in 1940 made news last week. The Army's Caribbean Defense Command arrested 19 Panama Canal Zone employes, nightclub owners and Colon cabaret girls, along with British Honduras' leading businessman: shrewd "Captain" George Gough, so-called "King of Belize" (rhymes with sneeze). All were part of a spy ring which not only informed Nazi submarines of United Nations ship movements, but helped to refuel the subs at little-known keys and hidden shore bases...
...Army found how at least one phase of a mare's nest of Caribbean intrigue had worked. The head man was Gough, an ex-rumrunner supposedly turned respectable, who pulled much of his information from a blowsy Colon nightclub. Besides getting service men and canal employes to buy them drinks of colored water at 75? a drink, the cabaret girls were paid off for information they picked up on ship movements. Gough also got information from native labor sent to Panama through an agency his brother helped to run as part of Gough Bros. Enterprises...
Buenos Aires' opera house, the Teatro Colon, is one of the two or three best in the world. Bigger and grander than Manhattan's aged and drab Metropolitan, it has a much longer season: from May through October. This year the Colon's director, Floro Meliton Ugarte, signed Arturo Toscanini (see above} for six concerts with the opera orchestra. Meantime...