Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When new planes are available, Aerovias has ambitious plans for expansion. In addition to more routes in Mexico, the Mexican flag line expects to push south to Panama. It will also ask the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to land at Miami and Los Angeles. How much more Braniff will get in its own country, to add to its well-fed inland service, Braniff Airways, Inc. could predict no more accurately than the dozens of other U.S. lines ascramble for new routes. But one thing was certain: Braniff's Mexican cousin had its start, was in competition in Mexico...
Departamento 50 also revealed a dream of the chief saboteur that never came off: to destroy the Panama Canal by exploding a Chilean ship in one of the locks...
...from the East (RKO-Radio) is vouched for by Drew Pearson as a true story. Eddie Carter (Lee Tracy), an ex-soldier who likes easy money, uneasily decides to pick up $10,000 of it by selling the Japanese his country's plans for the defense of the Panama Canal. Then he lets G-2 know about it. One G-2 agent (Regis Toomey) helps out by impersonating a crooked Canal Zone sergeant who hands Tracy a complete set of obsolete plans; another (Nancy Kelly) saves Tracy's life at the cost of her own. These and other...
...Halsey was ailing and unavailable. Nimitz sent Raymond Ames Spruance out first with two carriers, then Frank Jack Fletcher with the Yorktown. As senior, Fletcher took overall command, but when the Yorktown retired from the fight, crippled, Spruance carried on. The victory ended the Jap threat to Hawaii, the Panama Canal and the U.S. itself. It was the turning point of the Pacific war. In announcing the triumph, Nimitz punned: "We are about midway to our objective...
Dogface Soldier was written in 1942 by two Long Beach, N.Y. soldiers, both strangers to Tin Pan Alley : Corporal Bert Gold, 27, onetime Manhattan movie-theater manager, now at Dale Mabry Field, Fla., and Lieut. Ken Hart, an ex-New York Times correspondent with the A.A.F. in Panama. Composer Gold confesses: "I banged out the theme with one finger and we called in a professional to do the arrangement. He was the man with the education and the man who got the $5." Technically, he characterizes his work as "a beat-up, old-fashioned style, spontaneous-sounding ballad...