Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stating in his special message: "It is, I believe, a historic fact that every great improvement to better commercial communications, whether in the case of railroads into new territory, or the deepening of great rivers, or the building of canals, or even the cutting of the Isthmus of Panama, have all been subjected to opposition on the part of local interests." And he added a warning: "I call your attention to the simple fact that Canada alone can, if desired, build locks at the Lachine Rapids and at the international sector and thus provide a seaway wholly within Canadian control...
...York last week Death, as it must to all creatures, came to the Bronx Zoo's female vampire bat, 16 weeks after Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars had brought her from Panama (TIME, Oct. 2). Three days later its 25-day-old baby died too, of indigestion and loneliness. That left the world without a single live vampire bat on exhibition...
Died. The world's only captive bushmaster, most dangerous snake of the American tropics, caught last month by Douglas D. H. March (TIME, Nov. 20); in Panama City...
...Ditmars' trip to Panama last summer had made New York's Bronx Zoo unique throughout the world in the possession of a live vampire bat, a tiny, loathsome, jut-jawed creature which lives on blood sucked from beasts and men (TIME, Oct. 2). Thriving on defibrinated blood obtained fresh daily from an abattoir, the captive has now presented its owners with the first vampire bat ever born...
...Last captive birth was in Panama's Gorgas Memorial Laboratory (Medical Research) last year...