Word: colonizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colon, Panama the motor of an Army amphibian exploded, hurled a jagged piece of metal into the stomach of Private Ralph H. Lawson, killed...
While 15,000 bluejackets swarmed ashore at Colon to celebrate their delayed leave, the Tokyo Press, aware that all U. S. naval strategy centres around Panama Canal operations, sneered at "the American Fleet's failure," declared that "passage through the canal in 24 hr. has been proved impossible...
Hollywood. Tia Juana, Agua Caliente, Malibu, Colon. What glorious pictures these words conjure up in the minds of the moviegoer and the newspaper reader. Can't you just picture the exciting days and nights spent in these colorful cities. And, by the way, if you're planning to go travelling, and wish to visit these lands of your dreams, don't fail, absolutely, to read Incredible Land by that picturesque writer, Basil Woon (Liveright, $2.50). As a guide book it is excellent, but it is no less a very readable volume for an evening at home on the magic carpet...
...Last week the surgeons reported a total of 24,448 five-year cures. Of the total 7,990 have been cancer of the womb, 8,051 cancer of the breast, 1,506 cancer of the mouth and lip, 1,124 cancer of the skin, 2,067 cancer of the colon and rectum. The knife, x-ray and radium effected these cures because the patients reported and their physicians recognized the cancers before much destruction had occurred. This was the point which the surgeons wanted impressed on everyone. Dr. Robert Battey Greenough of Boston, who later in the week was elected...