Word: panama
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After framing a constitution proposed by the officers of their organization, the Harvard Spanish Club was shown pictures and slides on Panama by Neil Small '45, vice-president of the group Wednesday at 8 o'clock in the Adams House upper common room...
...Demetrio Porras, Panama's Minister to London, Juan March (presumably in Portugal) grumbled: the Spanish Civil War is not over, because political prisoners are still held and there is no real unity in the country; Spain's future depends on restoration of the monarchy with support of the Leftist parties. Tycoon March denied having an active role in the movement to restore the monarchy...
Every 20 Minutes. Even in peacetime, on many occasions traffic would jam. Through three locks (the Weitzel has been too shallow to use since 1919) staggering tonnage totals flowed; in 1929 some 92,000,000 tons, more than through the Panama, Suez and Kiel canals combined. In the short season, nipped to eight months by ice, as many as 16,000 ships slid through the locks, one every 20 minutes...
...served as Admiral George Dewey's flagship. A year later she helped quench a flare-up in Panama. In 1905 special envoys of Russia and Japan met on board her during their peace conference at Portsmouth...
...runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please don't expound too much on my cruising the Chicago River in my outboard motor boat...