Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gatun Lake, in the Panama Canal Zone, floats a little fleet of motorboats. They are blue-grey, stubby, old-so old, some of them, that they are kept lake-worthy mainly by the heroic ingenuity of their soldier crews. The soldiers who run the boats call them the third-ocean fleet. They are the supply boats of one of the finest, least-known outfits in the U.S. Army: the Panama Coast Artillery Command...
...number and exact location of these guardian outposts, scattered along the Panama Canal, are close-held Army secrets. But any foreign sailor, gliding through the Canal on a freighter, can see occasional clusters of tents or barracks in the hills, can even see the snouts of guns against the sky. Any Japanese or German strategist, studying maps of the Canal, knows that the guns are there to guard some of the most valuable military targets in the world: the locks in the Canal itself, and great earthen Gatun Dam (105 ft. above sea level and 400 ft. thick...
...plus $300 war-risk insurance) from U.S. Lines. Brooklyn shipyard workers are repairing her bottom (injured by the Florida sand bar on which she ran aground in January), installing extra bunks for troops, preparing her for her first Army voyage on June 18-through the Panama Canal to Hawaii with soldiers and materiel...
...only had legal powers in Army and Navy contracts, but lacked mandatory priority power over contracts of the British and other foreign governments under the Lend-Lease Act, over industrial contracts for the expansion of production of scarce but vital materials, over other Federal bureau contracts (Maritime Commission, Panama Canal...
...named William Goodfellow, who passed across the U.S. on his way to Britain. William Goodfellow, who is managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of Auckland, stated that "about" 24 out of a fleet of 60 refrigerator ships which had plied from New Zealand to Britain via the Panama Canal had been sunk. Said Dairyman Goodfellow: "There are several million carcasses of mutton and lamb [in New Zealand warehouses] awaiting shipment. We also have an excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with a new season's make coming on." The immediate need: 20 refrigerator ships. If Dairyman Goodfellow...