Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three American outposts-the Panama Canal, Australia and Pearl Harbor-are in grave danger because of Army and Navy bickering for control of air power...
...narrow mouth of Trondheim fjord bristles with German guns. The old ship-building wharf, extended for warships, has been blasted by British bombers. Half a mile outside Trondheim, transatlantic U-boats crouch in shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take...
...they would have to cooperate in some form of organized medical service, gave them four choices: 1) to accept commissions in Army or 2) Navy; 3) to work for the Public Health Service; 4) to accept assignments in such Federal civilian agencies as the Indian Service, Veterans' Administration, Panama Canal, Children's Bureaus...
...first architect to use unfinished California redwood as a decorative element in beautiful building, the first to wed his free, unconventional designs to the mountainous beauty of the California landscape. Maybeck is principally remembered for his dreamlike Palace of Fine Arts at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific Exposition...
...also seagoing patrol craft, but their range is short, and their prime function is to break up fleet attacks on bases such as the Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft...