Word: panama
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sample of U.S. politeness had already been given. The Panama Canal had been closed to Japanese ships. Ten Japanese freighters heading for the Canal's Caribbean entrance hove to offshore, hung idly in the thick July heat. Other ships went through but their turn never came. To protests the War Department said: so sorry (taking no chances on one of them blowing up in a lock), but the Canal was undergoing repairs. Finally the Japanese freighters gave up, plowed south on the 19,000-mile voyage around Cape Horn...
...command the entire Caribbean defense area (Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, six other bases), 57-year-old Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews (Air Forces) succeeds finicky, 62-year-old Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis (Cavalry). The Caribbean Defense Command is the biggest field job yet given an Army airman. The change is also a drastic remedy for one of the Army's sore spots. As General Van Voorhis' subordinate air commander, in an area where air defense is paramount, Frank Andrews had been kicked into a back corner, given little chance to do his all-important job. Already tried...
...April 1937, my husband, James A. Moore, my brother, Henry A. Dyer, "Jungle Jim" Price and myself crossed this jungle territory from Panama on the Pacific to Colombia on the Atlantic...
...packers deserted us, making it necessary to dispose of a good part of our equipment. Two Indian boys on their way to visit the chief medicine man of their tribe in Colombia agreed to guide us. We followed a well-worn Indian trail over the range of mountains between Panama and Colombia, and after many hardships we reached the Indian village of Arquia in Colombia...
Because I was the first white woman to have crossed this trail, the [Panama-Colombia] Boundary Commission was going to name the trail from Paya to Arquia in my honor by calling it El Camino de Alicia...