Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such rumors were momentarily quieted when the President suddenly turned up at the Panama Canal after two days and three nights of steady steaming. He swiftly inspected the Zone defenses, boarded the Tuscaloosa again, slid out into the broad Pacific. Washington, like a husband whose wife is away, wondered a little, worried a little, went about its work with a slightly lost feeling...
...Other six Government roads combined have 277 miles of track. Biggest is the profitable, 132-mile Panama Railroad (ColÓn to Panama...
...Inter-American Neutrality Conference at Panama undertook to establish a "neutrality belt" extending an average of 300 miles from the North and South American coasts. On Dec. 23 Panama's President Augusto Samuel Boyd protested against violation of that zone in the battle between the Admiral Graf Spee and three British cruisers (TIME, Dec. 25). In last week's reply to both the original declaration and the protest, Great Britain flatly refused to admit that a neutrality belt existed...
...Awaiting Maritime Commission approval were requests to sell two ships to Panama to carry grain to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Holland; one ship to Canadian International Paper Co. to transport newsprint to the U. S. and Great Britain...
Current signs of amity, Aikman believes, are due to the Good Neighbor policy and the War. "The State Department . . . took its partial defeat at Lima with a minimum of moral pout and snobbery, and at Panama, in September 1939, it had its partial reward. . . . [But] the U. S. . . . came to Panama with the fiscal and economic power to ruin or succor a dozen or more republics whose trade ties and money links with Germany . . . had been completely disrupted by the War . . . Uncle Sam had suddenly become the only banker and grocer on his street." Unchanged remain the bottom facts that...