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Roosevelt I coveted a piece of the Panamanian Isthmus and took it for a Canal. But before diggers dared pervade that fever-infested series of swamps called "White Man's Grave," Sanitarian William Crawford Gorgas went ahead, chasing away the mosquitoes. Dr. Gorgas had learned about the fever-bearing mosquitoes in Cuba where Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay had indicted the insects and Dr. Walter Reed had convicted them. Their work enabled Dr. Gorgas to help make Havana the healthiest large city in the world, the Panama Canal an actuality. Similar work practically drove yellow fever from all North America...
...eruption of Mt. Momotombo, Nicaragua's proudest eminence (6,200 ft.), put a big fat question mark upon the idea of an interoceanic canal across that Central American republic, turned the tide of U. S. sentiment in favor of the Panamanian route. Last week's earthquake at Managua (see page 23) punctuated the same proposition, now revived, with another question mark no less...
Swearing-mad German seamen on the steamer Vogtland took many times in vain, last week, the name of their employer, H. Vogemann Co. of Hamburg. The, firm had just transferred the Vogtland from German to Panamanian register, informing her crew that the German minimum they had been receiving now could and would be cut 25% under Panamanian law. H. Vogemann Co. will also cut by 9% the number of the crew and will cut 10% from the social insurance provided for the crew. In all, H. Vogemann Co. will save 44% of the Vogtland's present running costs...