Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annuity paid by the U. S. to Panama for the use and occupation of the Canal Zone, plus the liquor and stamp taxes of Panama were pledged, last week, as security for a $12,000,000 loan at 5% made to the Government of President Rodolfo Chiari by the National City Co. of Manhattan...
Rivers and on the Panama Canal. He has worked before with both the Mississippi River Commission and the U. S. Army. Awaiting confirmation by the Senate, all he would say about his new job was: "It is possible to control the river, entirely possible. It depends on spending the proper amount of money and on using the proper plans...
Last week the Panama Canal was blown up in the imaginations of U. S. Army and Navy men. With the U. S. battle fleet at far-away Hawaii, an enemy fleet was thought to be snoring up the Atlantic Coast to attack Hampton Roads. The U. S. Joint Army and Navy Board, having perfected plans for just such an emergency, proceeded with a rapid, potent mobilization of coast defense units at the mouth of Chesapeake...
...mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising the pay of postal clerks and letter carriers, and enlarging the Panama Canal. Last month he got up from a sick bed at President Coolidge's request, to fight for moderation of the "extortionate" Flood Control Bill...
Professor Millikan has climbed the highest mountains, in Bolivia, Panama, California; measured these rays; found them about 200 times as penetrating...