Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trip. Thirty years ago, the Western Hemisphere became the U. S. That it might not remain so, even with Spain gone and Britain acquiescent, was perceived by the U. S. statesman who secured the Panama Canal. That the Panama Canal was a business as well as a Naval channel was perceived by the man who founded Florida's perpetual youth?Henry M. Flagler. On his way to Havana, President Coolidge would not fail to be impressed by the Flagler monuments...
Advertisers ruefully recalled that only small electric signs may be displayed on Fifth Avenue, and that onetime President William Howard Taft signed an executive order on Sept. 8, 1911 which makes the frontage of the Panama Canal one of the few U. S. regions where electric signs may not be legally erected...
Unconscious of these wrangles over the national coffee cups, Col. Lindbergh tended to business. He climbed into The Spirit of St. Louis at Mexico City; nosed upward; set off for Guatemala, British Honduras, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama...
...Navy is likewise a weapon of defense. We have a foreign commerce . . . outlying territory . . . long stretches . . . the richest cities in the world ... a large population . . . the greatest treasure ever bestowed upon any people ... an international duty of defending the Panama Canal...
...York and Adriatic ports, announced that it would build eight new ships for Filene-plan service. Six will be of 10,000 gross tons, two of 40,000 gross tons. Fares on at least the smaller six will be $125 from Manhattan to Trieste. California. At Newport News the Panama Pacific Line's new California, largest commercial ship ever built in the U. S., last week was practically ready for experimental trips. By Jan. 28 workmen will have completed her fittings and she will sail, with 751 passengers filling every one of her cabins, from New York to California...