Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speed was no object for they had 2,060 miles to go; getting there, from Hampton Roads, Va., to Colon, Panama, was the main thing. None the less, the two big seaplanes vanished over the southern horizon seven minutes apart, droning for Cape Hatteras at a smart 80 knots or so. The destroyer Overton, the minesweeper Sandpiper and cruiser Saukee, strung down the Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean...
...thus bolster up the Volstead Act, was reached last week when Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, recently arrived Spanish Ambassador, exchanged solemn pacts. Similar agreements are now in force with Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Sweden. Treaties are pending with Belgium and France...
...support or at least munitions from Mexico. This has so alarmed even the supposedly impartial U. S. Associated Press that that organization headed one of its lengthiest despatches last week with the following sentence: "The spectre of a Mexican-fostered Bolshevist hegemony intervening between the United States and the Panama Canal has thrust itself into American-Mexican relations...
...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...
Late in August, Digger Gilbert T. Brewer returned from a trip down the Mississippi Valley, to Mexico City and South America via Panama, with extensive evidence of Norse expeditions having penetrated this continent thoroughly in pre-Columbus days. Some of Mr. Brewer's evidence: 1) Indian legends of huge serpents appearing on Lake Ontario. (Norse war galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization...