Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military Inspection. The President then undertook a systematic, full-schedule inspection of Hawaii. In two days, touring about in an open Packard, his seersucker suit and Panama hat conspicuous among the gold braid of generals and admirals, he visited Marine and Naval air stations, Hickam Field, a jungle training center, ammunition dumps, supply bases, hospitals and Pearl Harbor itself...
Last week Aerovias Braniff, S.A., Mexico subsidiary of Braniff Airways Inc., was granted permission by the Mexican Government to establish 3,067 miles of international services. As a Mexican flagline, Aerovias Braniff will operate to Miami and Los Angeles in the U.S., and to Panama via the Central American republics...
They wore rakish straw and panama hats gleaned on the march. One Maori wheeled his Bren gun in a streamlined perambulator. Another wore a silk hat and carried a walking stick, his Bren gun strapped across his back. One company marched into a village, captured outlying houses in the midst of their own barrage. Complained a prisoner: "We didn't think you would come until the barrage lifted...
Civilian prisoners taken on Saipan believed that the Japanese had captured the Hawaiian Islands, that their Navy had gone through the Panama Canal without losing a ship, had taken Washington. Another yarn, which U.S. reporters read in the English-language newspaper Mainichi: the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox was losing his fleet at the rate of one or two ships a day instead of risking it all in one battle. Reason (according to Mainichi): Publisher Knox would get more stories for his newspaper that...
Died. Maurice Bunau-Varilla, 88, opportunist publisher of Paris' recently pro-Nazi Le Matin, brother of the late famed engineer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who helped start the Panama Canal; in Paris. In appreciation of Le Matin's sup port, the invading Nazis ordered large quantities of Synthol, an externally ap plied headache nostrum under Bunau-Varilla's control...