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...years ago he wrote a series of diary letters to friends in France, telling what he thought about what he saw. Collected, they make a short book (192 pp.) but a brightly written, informative one. In the Canal Zone, Traveler Siegfried was much impressed by the mechanics of the Gatun locks. "The silence is positively religious, giving an impression of safety, strength, and calm. It does honor to the Americans, and classes them with the Romans among the great builders of history." In Lima he found the people as climate-loyal as Californians; though in winter there is usually...
...late. In the early morning the Saratoga pushed her bow into the wind, 45 planes soared from her launching deck, made their way above the vital locks. At the same time the Aroostook, representing the absent aircraft-carrier Langley, a giant Sikorsky started across the Isthmus to the locks Gatun, dropped its "bombs,"' was interned in "neutral" territory...
...grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred dollars to open the canal locks needed for the swim. At Gatun Locks Swimmer Halliburton paid 36? (correct charge on a tonnage basis) to be floated up the 85 ft. from Limon Bay to Gatun Lake...
...with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine chasers, the mine sweepers, the airplane carriers, the colliers, the oilers, the cargo ships, and the last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks. And up above 234 airplanes would frolic around the Los Angeles. Undoubtedly Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett would be on board the dirigible, would look down upon the 40-mile ribbon, would say: "Ah What a Navy!"† echoing the quarter-deck thought of Admiral Samuel S. Robison...
Methodists, Congregationalists, Reformeds, had been forwarded to the Union Church of the Canal Zone. This assures the erection of a new and beautiful temple of unity at Balboa. Other edifices are already located at Cristobal, Gatun, Pedro Miguel. All are self-sustaining, although the migratory character of the white population makes it necessary to raise building funds...