Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With bad taste and good propaganda, an uninvited guest crashed Panama City last week where a party for representatives of the 21 American countries was gathering. The party folks were all Americans, all Lima conferees, all concerned with keeping the American hemisphere out of war. The crasher was a belligerent, a German, an official-Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister accredited to all Central American countries-and he brought with him a staff of assistants whose names and number were a guarded secret. Throughout South America, German propaganda agencies simultaneously charged that the parley was merely a device by which...
...Panama Canal, Trans-Siberian Railroad, Boulder Dam, New York's subways, many U. S. railroads, were built with Marion shovels (now no longer steam, but electric & Diesel driven). Monster of the Marion line is a $450,000 strip coal mining shovel, which can scoop up 50 tons of earth, dump it on top of a seven-story building 226 feet away...
...fighting planes for Britain and France, cast off from the Bollards at San Pedro, Calif., and stood out past Point Fermin to sea. Before they passed Catalina two Canadian destroyers steamed up with bones in their teeth, slowed to freighter's pace, headed south in convoy toward the Panama Canal...
Inasmuch as the Army was bound to guard the Panama Canal and the vital Caribbean, and the Navy was recommissioning many of her 116 old destroyers and would have to man them for Neutrality patrol, his military measures were not extreme. They did leave the inference that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to be prepared to fight-if not against Naziism, at least for Neutrality. Said Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, explaining why he would rather keep the Atlantic Squadron near home than convoy U. S. refugees from Europe: "Well, you have seen the reports of submarines in the Caribbean...
...many of the orders for fuels, electrical appliances, chemicals, drugs, newsprint which had been coming from Europe. The War Ministry discussed discharging the German military mission which had been instructing land forces. And Argentina heartily endorsed a proposal originated by El Hombre Roosevelt but officially put forward by Panama: that the signatories of the Lima Declaration meet at Panama City late this month to work together on neutrality measures...