Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port of New York was closed for three days in November 1942 by U-boat mining; Chesapeake Bay was twice closed. Ten mines were swept from the Panama Canal entrance...
...confused with Cocos Island, about 550 miles southwest of Panama...
...else aboard. He issued beer. An octette of Negro mess-men and other talent, with a band of pots & pans, an accordion and a cornet, put on a pathetic and courageous show-"The Franklin Frolics." For four days they rested in Pearl Harbor, then sailed on for Panama. On April 26-after 38 days and 13,400 miles-they dropped anchor at last in New York's Gravesend...
...Reginald Heber Gooden left his native California to take charge of a Protestant Episcopal parish in Cuba. Last week in Los Angeles, he was consecrated Bishop of the Panama Canal Zone-thereby became a multiple religious titleholder. He is the church's youngest bishop (35), its first born in California, its only bishop who is an active bishop's son (his father is Suffragan Bishop Robert B. Gooden of Los Angeles...
...Allies it would be no easy task. Before their full strength could be brought to bear, troops and supplies must be moved from Europe (16,000 miles via the Panama Canal, 13,000 miles by ship and train via New York and San Francisco). Even more difficult than moving would be the job of finding places to base them. The Philippines, most convenient and adequate staging area, are 1,350 miles from the Japanese homeland...