Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bouncing is nothing new to 36-year-old Edward ("Ted") William Scott, New Zealand-born editor of the bilingual Panama American. In the '20s he bounced and was bounced about the ring by leading light weights of Europe and Australasia. Bouncing out of the fight business, he caromed from job to job, ended as a reporter...
...former Germans went names, duties, pay, addresses, backgrounds of virtually every Panama Canal employe; of men who work on the Army's secret bomb sight; of mechanics who install fire-control apparatus on battleships; of plane designers; of Army intelligence officers' clerks who file, record or distribute in-&-outgoing secret or confidential matter for war plans, communications, the State Department; names of every U. S. motorboat owner, of confidential secretaries to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull; names of all machine-tool makers...
...years ago the State Department became alarmed by Nazi shenanigans in Colombia. Controlled and operated by avowed anti-U. S. Germans, powerful, 20-year-old Scadta airline had mapped and charted the Panama Canal, had placed an airfield but 150 miles away, could well use its heavy Junkers as troop transports, bombers. Last year Colombia responded gracefully (if belatedly) to U. S. pressure by nationalizing Scadta (now Avianca) and giving 64% control to Pan American.* But the Nazi shadow still fell on the canal...
...jittery U. S., Sedta is as sinister as her late sister Scadta. Recently she has sought (unsuccessfully) to extend service to 1) Colombia, 2) the Galápagos Islands,† which, though sparsely inhabited and commercially impotent, are located strategically near the Panama Canal, 3) the jungles of eastern Ecuador, from which she could easily connect with Lufthansa-owned Condor's penetration line in western Brazil. Her Junkers JU52s (used as troop transports in Belgium, The Netherlands) could fly from Ecuador to the Canal Zone in four hours or less...
...George Freedley & John A. Reeves's A History of the Theatre (Crown; $3), a fat review of what has happened from Egypt's Pyramid Texts of 4000-3200 B.C. to Manhattan's Panama Hattie...