Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seemed to the forefathers of the U. S. that waterways were most important to the Army. Hence to permit the building of a bridge or to undertake the digging of a Panama Canal the War Department must be called upon, and the Department must call upon its warrior-engineers. When an engineer is President, it is but logical that things should happen in the War Department...
...bivouac the force, peaked, tan canvas service tents were thrown up along orderly streets. To many of the riflemen tenting was new. No novelty was it for 1,000 of the force, members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, who had come from posts as far as Panama, China, the Philippines...
...average steamer time from dock to dock, New York to San Francisco is 18 days, time between steamers in addition. True, we have 16-day delivery by Panama Pacific Line steamers, California, Virginia and soon the Pennsylvania, but sailing every 14 days, the average becomes much longer...
Last week no officers and men of Company F of the U. S. Eleventh Engineers sailed from Panama for Nicaragua well loaded with tripods, telescopes, plumb lines, and other surveyors' gadgets. By order of Secretary of War James William Good they will map the route along which the U. S. has the right to build an inter-ocean Nicaraguan Canal. The right was bought...
...wonders what these people meant. No small assignment was it for him to memorize just the list of things he is directly or jointly responsible for: the regular military establishment (124,000 officers and men at more than 100 posts); veterans, river & harbor improvements on inland navigation, the Panama Canal, the Philippines, Porto Rico, flood control, waterpower, forest reserves, oil conservation, the Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia parks. In addition. President Hoover chose Mr. Good to be the administration's prime political adviser and agent. For twelve years (1909-21) an Iowa Congressman. Western Campaign Manager for Calvin Coolidge...