Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tents. The wing's hospital is a jerry-built wooden structure whose ceiling drips water. The wing itself-the only U.S. tactical air outfit anywhere in France-is just as unready. The 126th is an Illinois Air National Guard outfit, originally an observation squadron which served in the Panama Canal Zone in World War II, later a fighter wing. It is commanded by a good airman: a veteran United Air Lines pilot named Frank Allen, 42, who led a B-17 group in North Africa and Europe in World War II. The 126th became a light bomber wing only...
...Spain, Argentina, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Haiti, El Salvador, San Marino and Panama...
Since then, AEC's activities have mushroomed. Latest expansion is the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina, which will cost $1,250,000,000. The engineers who are building it believe it is the greatest construction project in world history: bigger than the Panama Canal or the Great Wall of China. The contrast between the quiet of 1901 Constitution Avenue and the spectacular activity along the Savannah hits any visitor...
Some of Leonardo's inventions were actually built and used. His canal locks are still in operation near Milan, and they work just like the locks of the Panama Canal. But Leonardo was often too far ahead of his contemporaries. His paddle-wheel boat, his cantilever swing bridge, his pumps and his air conditioner (both driven by water power) did not fit the crude technology of the 16th Century. Centuries had to pass before the slow-moving world caught up with Leonardo...
...sack with a hole at the bottom"-words that might have come from Valley Forge. Through sheer necessity, he became a brilliant guerrilla campaigner, making up in mobility and surprise what he lacked in numbers. Before he was through, he and his followers had routed the Spaniards from Panama to Peru, laid the foundation of other free republics in Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador...