Word: gatun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first line of defense, the Panama Canal Zone, the Army dispatched 30 officers, 859 antiaircraft artillerymen, five bombers (to patrol vital areas), 31 pursuit planes. In the Canal's Gatun Lake a Navy gunboat took up a symbolic if otherwise ineffective vigil. In Washington Army-Navy procurers stepped up rearmament spending, made the U. S. hum with Preparedness...
After inspecting the military bases, complimenting all hands on the Zone's "smart appearance'' and their own "military bearing," Franklin Roosevelt reboarded the Houston in Gatun Locks...
...looked to be capable of negotiating even a jungle cart trail. On the side flapped a dusty banner proclaiming its destination as "New York, America, U. S. A." At that time no motor road crossed the Isthmus from Panama City (southeast) to Colon (northwest). The Panama Railroad hurdled huge Gatun Lake on a trestle, planes soared from side to side, but the motor road existed only in blueprints. We turned out for the two boys and their rut-jumping car-we hoisted them on to the railroad trestle with one wheel just outside the tracks, and the other inside...
Died. Major-General William Luther Sibert, 75, builder of the Atlantic division of the Panama Canal and of the Gatun Locks, manager of many another important Army engineering job, organizer and director (1918-20) of the Chemical Warfare Service; at his country home near Bowling Green, Ky. Although he quarreled with Goethals and went home before the Canal was finished, Soldier Sibert, unlike Soldier Greely (see below) got his Congressional thanks right away...
Lead ship was the light cruiser Milwaukee. Up she went 85 ft. through Miraflores and Pedro Miguel locks to Gatun Lake. Forty-eight hours later the training-ship Melville ended the procession of the in ships. Canal capacity had been estimated at 48 ships in 24 hr. Admiral Sellers and Governor Schley congratulated all hands on raising the record to 55 ships...