Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hairy ears of the cannoneers of the Panama Coast Artillery Command are due to burn this week. Into them will be poured (Thursday, 8:30 to 9 p.m. E.D.S.T.) a booming salute from NBC. From Manhattan they will be greeted by their old commander, Major General Sanderford Jarman, by NBC President Niles Trammell, by Gertrude Lawrence, many another. Then from their own tiny stations, PCAN and PCAC, in the Canal Zone, their new topkick, Major General William E. Shedd, and Brigadier General Glen E. Edgerton, Governor of the Zone, will make reply...
...present Edna Skelton's husband (whose adopted coat of arms is a redheaded skull and crossbones) is handsomely repaying his wife's loving care. Solidly bolted to the M.G.M. payroll for $1,500 weekly, he has finished Lady Be Good, is now making another musical, Panama Hattie. Although his oldtime medicine-show manners (telling stories at the top of his voice, howling, gesturing violently) occasionally get him out of line, Edna tempers his healthy conceit. Seldom without an unlighted cigar in his mouth or hand, he neither smokes nor drinks. He makes a rule of never answering...
...Caribbean bases are vital to U.S. defense in both oceans. While the Caribbean islands are Andy Andrews' ramparts, his citadel is The Ditch. For within their protective arc lies the Panama Canal-key to U.S. strategy in the Atlantic and the Pacific, certain target of any invader. Example: a sudden blow at the Canal from the Atlantic side when a big part of the U.S. Fleet is in the Atlantic-as it is nowadays-might prevent the rapid reinforcement of naval forces remaining in the Pacific...
...Martinique also lies in the very center of the chain of islands known as the Lesser Antilles, which guard the Caribbean-halfway between U.S. bases on Puerto Rico and Trinidad on one of the direct routes from Europe to the Panama Canal...
...Sothern, who feels naked without earrings and calls most people "darling" because she is weak on names, will be given a chance to outgrow Maisie. Scheduled for fall release is an elaborate musical, Lady Be Good, in which she plays a lead. Ahead of her are two more, Panama Hattie and Du Barry Was a Lady; then a shot at Spencer Tracy in a picture not yet titled...