Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership of the club consists of students from Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, and Peru; while forty per cent of the group are citizens of the United States...
...disposed of so easily as Professor Elliott's childish toy-soldier complex. The Law Professor said that if England is defeated, the Nazis will penetrate South American via the barter route, following up economic with political infiltration, and setting up puppet regimes in state after state until the Panama Canal is threatened and the United States is left helpless, alone, and fatally vulnerable...
Jamaica, 80 miles south of Cuba and 500 miles north of the Panama Canal, is the only new U. S. base squarely within the Caribbean. For big, rugged Jamaica, the U. S. Navy has big plans : an anchorage at Portland Bight, in Galleon Harbor 33 square miles of land base; 100 acres near Williamsfield for a recreation centre and hospital mess ; a mile-square area south of May Pen for an emergency and auxiliary landing field. Near by at Port Royal the British naval dockyard, long neglected, will be improved by the U. S., providing the U. S. Navy with...
Married. Ethel Merman, 31, trumpet-voiced star of Panama Hattie and half-a-dozen earlier Broadway musicomedy hits; and William B. Smith, 39, a Hollywood actor's agent; between shows; in Elkton, Md. Neither had been married before. Roared Musicomedienne Merman: "Kid, love is wonderful...
...party in New Orleans' famed Antoine's. There to meet city and State officials was New Zealand-born, hard-hitting, one-eyed Lowell Yerex, founder and president of TACA. Purpose of the banquet was to dramatize Am Ex's request to CAB for a New Orleans-Panama route across the Gulf via Guatemala. New Orleans papers, envisioning their city as an international airport, played ball. Next morning the respected Times-Picayune ran a four-column map of the proposed route on page 1, slapped Ubico's picture in the middle, shouted "Greetings to Central America...