Word: gibraltarism
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...naval base and extensive fortifications were built to protect the "Gibraltar of America." From the military alone Key West merchants divided a $500,000 yearly payroll. Spongers from the Bahamas pried into the clear green waters with their long poles, brought up $375,000 worth of fine sponges each year. Shrimp fisheries boomed. And when Henry Morrison Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railway on stilts across the coral keys in 1912, Key West was an important U. S. port handling cargoes that increased to $65,000,000 yearly...
...under present conditions is virtually impossible. ... In demonstrating that the canal could be taken, it was proven also that the cost would be so terrible as to make it actually impracticable because the attacking nation would be left crippled. It was demonstrated again, also, that the battleship remains the Gibraltar of naval warfare." What Exercise M demonstrated, neither the United Pressman nor any other civilian will ever precisely know. To prove the Panama Canal vulnerable or invulnerable or the battleship a Gibraltar or not, was certainly not the purpose of the Office of Naval Operations, which set the problem...
...Hearst party sailed for Gibraltar where it will disembark, spend a month in Spain stalking antiques. After a visit to Italy Mr. Hearst will go on to Bad Nauheim where he will learn with interest that a rabid Nazi newspaper, Deutsche Wochenschau, has spread the word that he is a "notorious Jewish agitator whose real name is Herz." In London a caravan of automobiles has been engaged to whisk the chief & retinue to the Hearst castle in Glamorgan, South Wales...
...used to be a bullfighting tradition that, just as no white jazz band can match the primitive rhythms of a Duke Ellington, so no truly great matador was ever born north of the 40th parallel of latitude (about 30 miles south of Madrid), or south of Gibraltar. This tradition of Andalusian superiority suffered a heavy blow with the rise of the Madrileno Marcial Lalanda, the greatest money-maker in the ring few years ago. It suffered still more when a series of once despised Mexican matadors began coming to Spain, winning fat contracts and great salvos of applause.* Spain...
...news is the most welcome I have ever received." said the general. "I shall retire to Gibraltar, then to Portugal to observe the political situation abstractly...