Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white uniforms had been bought. Did that argue trans-equator service? Any British crew signed on for more than six months is customarily provided with whites. So The Maureen was ready for a six-month hitch at least. Five days after leaving New York, the Mauretania had reached the Panama Canal...
...Literature) some time in 1927 or maybe 1928. I give you only one stanza: Obedient to the phobias of the regimented herd, To the dictates of the masses I have properly deferred: I always sent out Greeting Cards, and Mother's Day I kept, I never wore my panama beyond the 15th Sept...
...hand at combining business & pleasure, the President had taken time on his trip to scrutinize the Panama Canal Zone defenses minutely. He came back renewing his demand that Congress at once appropriate $15,000,000, authorize $99,300,000 for a third set of Canal locks-ultimately to cost $277,000,000. (Both appropriation & authorization were promptly turned down by the House.) He also wanted the number (secret) of airplanes & anti-aircraft guns in the Zone doubled...
...American Republics are in accord on the Canal's defense, said the President to the press. To official circles, a few hours after his return, he said that he had personally obtained direct permission from three countries (Colombia, Panama, probably Costa Rica) near the Canal for U. S. military use of their airports in wartime defense of the Canal. If new locks are not begun pronto, he warned (their construction will take six years), Congress will be to blame. Mumbling "economy," his leaders moped back to Capitol Hill to try again...
...dream of the drive to the East, a tumultuous welter of claims, charges, accusations; demands for Suez, Gibraltar, Singapore; denunciations of British naval bases as pirate hideouts; insistence that Germany could no more tolerate Britain in Southeast Europe than the U. S. could tolerate an enemy seizure of the Panama Canal; demands that Britain give up its financial power-in short, an end of Britain's power, an end of the British Empire, as the price of peace. Whether or not the Führer shouted such claims to Sumner Welles in the Chancellery, they were certainly...