Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where does it go? Listed in the 1,249 pages of the 4 3/4-lb. 1958 budget is a staggering array of proposed expenditures, including $587,000 for relocating Botanic Garden greenhouses in the District of Columbia, $26,500 for installing new bowling alleys in the Panama Canal Zone and $590,000 for purchasing 50 hopper cars for the Alaska Railroad (but no new funds for the Joint Congressional Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures, which must try to get along on the money left over from the $22,500 appropriated...
What Author Descola calls "the prodigious curve of this incomparable destiny" begins with a child abandoned on the steps of a church in Spain. It passes through the forming of his expedition in Panama, his defeat of the Incas and his majesty as a marquis, ruler of "the empire of the sun." It moves, finally, to his death, like a Shakespearean tragic hero's on the swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster...
Under leadership of the U.S.'s Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, former Panama Canal engineer, some 23 ships of six nations stood in to attack the blockage in three task forces-one clearing smaller wrecks around Port Said, two others working from opposite ends of the canal to join at Ismailia in clearing the cement-laden hulk of the Egyptian LST Akka, by far the toughest single salvage job. The U.N. fleet, said General Wheeler, will be built up to 30 vessels and will operate under a consortium of experienced Dutch and Danish firms. If all goes according...
...September of the first oil ever found in quantity between Mexico and the South American mainland. That well quickly flooded with salt water, but Union will drill two more, and Costa Rica is enacting a liberal oil code. Because the Costa Rican discovery was right on the border of Panama, which already had an inviting oil law, six U.S. firms hurried there. All of Panama has been let out on exploratory concessions, and three test wells drilled...
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