Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article "Tooks Takes a Trip" [TIMe,, June 9] interested me very much. This article concerned the trip made by Richard Tewkesbury through the Panama jungle to Colombia...
...Panama, Ceferino de Gracia tried to scoop fish from a creek, choked to death when a fish jumped down his throat...
...waters a marine highway at least 27 feet deep, so that ocean vessels could sail from Lake ports to the whole maritime world. This would require at least 18 big locks, many canals, much dredging. Estimated cost, including facilities already built: $379,252,000-about the cost of the Panama Canal...
...week an 85-year-old pro-Seaway lobbyist (for Minnesota) named J. Adam Bede, who was a Congressman in 1903-09, remarked: "Aw, I've heard all this before. ... I remember when the railroad people testified that the transcontinental rails would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have argued, for example, that automobiles might move from Detroit to Los Angeles at a saving of $84.94 a ton. One friendly source-assuming total Seaway export-import traffic of 11,500,000 tons a year-estimates...
...used to handling Army publicity in the U.S., Sergeant Doster got out the first issue of the News last summer. Since then it has grown from 250 copies of eight pages, to a weekly circulation of 6,247 and 40 pages. In addition to the jungle outposts of the Panama Coast Artillery Command, the News also has a booming circulation in other Army outfits and among families and friends of Panama Coast Artillerymen. Subscribers, paying 25? to 50? per month, bought enough copies in April to give the News a net profit of $820 (which went into the soldiers...