Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shopping list was therefore 25 cruisers.* The other proposed additions were: 9 destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, 5 aircraft carriers. Calculations for these added auxiliaries were evolved on the 18-battleship scale and also with the idea of properly equipping the two outer zones of U. S. defense-Hawaii and Panama. As the result of her Allied building program during the War, the U. S. has plenty of destroyers, though these are aging.† But the U. S. quite lacks destroyer leaders-big, beamy head-ships for the destroyer squadrons (18 strong), built heavier and steadier for observation purposes...
...matters of moment the United States delegation has already incurred the enmity of the other representatives. In the first matter, all the Pan-American delegates advocated the abolishment of United States policing of the Caribbean. The fear of the United States for an unprotected Panama Canal and Nicaraguan canal route essentially loomed, however, as a virtual demand that the controversy be disposed of in the traditional manner. The other dispute was over the intention of President Coolidge, at this session, to include under new immigration laws the countries of the New as well as of the Old World. Any such...
Pearl Harbor, the great strategic naval base of the Pacific, has been erected at the crossroads of the ocean.* Ships from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Auckland in New Zealand, Sydney in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, Yokohama, Manila arrive and set forth daily...
...General John Archer Lejeune, famed "Biggest Leatherneck of All," Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps. He had just completed a thoroughgoing personal inspection (TIME, Jan. 16) of Marine activities throughout Nicaragua. Last week as he went aboard the cruiser Rochester, at Corinto, Nicaragua, and prepared to sail for Panama, "Leatherneck" Lejeune delivered heavy parting shots as follows: "The boys are well liked by the Nicaraguans. At every place I visited, Nicaraguans greeted me cordially. I was able to visit these places and get first hand information. I appreciate conditions better and in the future will be in a better...
California. With President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co., Manhattan, among her full complement of passengers, the new Panama-Pacific Liner California (TIME, Jan. 30) left New York last week on her maiden voyage to San Francisco...