Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama Hattie. Raw & rowdy musicomedy, with Ethel Merman and Cole Porter songs...
Events still might make the choice unnecessary. From Rio de Janeiro came a radio flash: the I. C. White, 7,052-ton American-owned Panama-registered tanker, had been torpedoed and sunk on Sept. 27 in the South Atlantic, with a loss of four of her 38 men. This was the eighth U.S.-owned ship sunk in World...
Divorced. Singer Ethel ("Panama Hattie") Merman; by William J. Smith, actors' agent; in Santa Monica. He said she left him two months after their marriage last November...
While all the world was hearing of the overthrow yesterday of Arulfo Arias. President of the Republic of Panama and a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, his nephew, Gilbert Arias '43, sat quietly in his room relieved by the news that the family were all safe but tight-lipped on the situation in his home country...
...Uruguayan Government this week completed plans for the biggest naval air base south of the Panama Canal. To be built on Laguna Negra, a lake close to the Atlantic Coast, 160 miles northeast of Montevideo, it will command the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a wide sweep of the South Atlantic. It will be constructed with U.S. funds lent and given to Uruguay for national defense. Like other Uruguayan ports, Laguna Negra Base will be open to U.S.. forces in case of war with the Axis...