Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After hunting alligators, but getting none, fishing, but catching none, being reported as on the verge of nervous breakdown, but having none, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh went down for a spin in a submarine. Then bidding good-bye to Panama and his vacation, he put on his goggles and returned to work...
Planning to fly straight from Panama to Bogota, Colombia, the flyer snatched an extra stop. Over the reputed Caribbean burial spot of an earlier, famed wanderer, Sir Francis Drake, he sought the north coast of South America. The little walled town of Cartagena, one of the oldest in the new world, gave him greeting to his third continent...
...Panama remembrance went into mourning. Flags hung at half staff. "Geetles,"* as his name had been popularly mispronounced, was returning to West Point. He took his place, as always near the head, of the great Class which lies in the army cemetery, hearing no reveille...
There are no inside cabins and most of the first-class staterooms have either private baths or shower. The deck has dancing space; there are two swimming pools. The International Mercantile Marine Corp., through its Panama-Pacific Line, owns...
Died. Major General George Washington Goethals, 69, builder of the Panama Canal...