Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Authorized a $15,000,000 start and a total of $277,000,000 appropriation to three-track the (now two-track) locks of the Panama Canal. Representative Ed Izac of California, bemedaled War veteran, pleaded vainly for the 114-year-old dream of a Nicaraguan Canal, which would take ten years to build, cost $800,000,000 (Panama Canal's original cost...
...Ratified (65 to 15) the long-delayed new treaty with Panama,* clarifying the U. S right to defend the Canal, upping Canal Zone rental from 250,000 to 430,000 balboas per annum. One balboa equals the gold value of one Roosevelt dollar (59.06?). The effect: Panama won her demand to get her canal rent from 1934 in old (100?) dollars instead of devalued (59?) dollars, became the only creditor on whom the U. S. has not succeeded in welching by devaluation...
...Panama ratified this treaty...
...Panama Canal Zone, the Federal District Court is Justice's only habitation in the Virgin Islands except for police courts. All offenses for which the penalty is more than six months in jail are tried in the Federal Court. At that, it handles only about 300 cases per year. The chief litigation is divorce. Judge Hastie had only two murder convictions in his two years. Rape cases are nearly as infrequent. The Court is peripatetic, traveling between the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. As it goes, its criteria must change, for until a few years...
Physiologists Britton and Kline went down to Panama, collected a few sloths (which are fairly tame and amenable) and got to work. First, they clocked the animals' normal progress along the underside of a horizontal pole. Speed of a two-toed sloth: a third of a mile an hour. Speed of a three-toed sloth: two-ninths of a mile an hour...