Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About eight months ago Brigadier General Jay Johnson Morrow, Governor of the Canal Zone, predicted that traffic through the Panama Canal would soon quadruple. His prediction seems likely to come true even sooner than he probably expected, for, in announced figures on Canal traffic for the fiscal year recently closed, he found that the rate of travel is now double that of a year ago, and tolls for the next year, at the present rate, will exceed $24,000,000, of which about $18,000,000 is profit above over-head expense...
...resign. Reports from Washington indicate that the Administration considers the whole matter a bad business and will place no constraints on Governor Towner. The situation in Porto Rico is expected to add to the interest of President Harding's visit there on his return from Alaska via Panama in August...
Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is a keen financier and wary junketeer. Since the adjournment of Congress he has traveled some 12,000 miles, visiting the Canal Zone, and in general "sticking his nose" into Government finances. In Panama he is said to have discovered a $7,000,000 surplus of the canal railroad, Government property, the books of which had never been audited by a Government auditor...
Alexander Smith Cochran, millionaire carpet manufacturer and second husband of the now Ganna Walska McCormick, whilom opera star: " In my private yacht, Restless, I arrived in Honolulu from England via Panama. The Restless cost $500,000. She is on her maiden voyage around the world...
From San Diego he will sail for home, via the Panama Canal and Porto Rico, and should complete his trip by Aug. 20 or thereabouts...