Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defiance, the rattlesnake struck. To Washington came the news that the 6,850-ton Pink Star, owned by the U.S. Government, flying the flag of Panama, had been sunk off Iceland in the same waters where a Nazi submarine had tried to torpedo the destroyer Greer and a raider had sent the merchantman Sessa to the bottom...
...Allies last week were Free French opinions that the Trans-Saharan Railway, now being built from North Africa to Dakar, would have little military use for years to come. It must cross 1,700 miles of shifting sands and jungle brush, is a building job as tremendous as the Panama Canal. Its chief current value to Vichy is as an unhealthy place to send political prisoners and refugees whom Vichy wants...
...policy of indiscriminate, unrestricted submarine warfare. Said the President: "This was piracy." But this attack and the other attacks were, he continued, part of a pattern, a Nazi design to abolish freedom of the seas in order to control and dominate the world. He mentioned other Nazi plots*; Of Panama registry though all four were U.S.-owned. in Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia -aimed at the same goal...
First time in history such aerial whoop-de-do has been made over a branch of the U.S. Army, the program came into being as a consequence of the activities of ebullient Master Sergeant Clay Doster, editor of the slaphappy Panama Coast Artillery News (TIME, June 9). Few months ago Sergeant Doster was given the tough job of getting some good radio shows for minuscule PCAN and PCAC, which provide four hours of entertainment a day for the 30,000 artillerymen scattered through the lonely Panama jungles...
Meantime NBC's Press Chief Bill Kostka decided that the next logical move was to tell the world about NBC and the Panama Coast Artillery. So this week NBC will tie the facilities of its Blue network via telephone line to a tiny 50-watt transmitter in the post gymnasium at Fort Amador, C.Z., advertise the fact that PCAN and PCAC are now its prot...