Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Balboa, Canal Zone, local poets competed in a 15-Balboa ($15) prize contest for "the most appropriate poem." Occasion: the Panama Canal's 2 5th birthday. The milestones of the canal, stretching over four centuries of history, now include...
...synthetic revolution of 1903 when the new Republic of Panama was set up (and instantly recognized by Roosevelt 1) after Colombia, the owner of the Isthmus, refused to grant the U. S. a canal concession. Said T. R.: "I took Panama...
...August 15, 1914-the end of eight years' struggle during which Dr. William Crawford Gorgas licked yellow fever and General George Washington Goethals' 50,000 ditch diggers licked 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock-the day the Panama Railroad's steamship Ancon made the first transit from Atlantic to Pacific...
...notation that the Army & Navy Munitions Board, which coordinates peacetime plans for wartime procurement and up to now has reported to the Secretaries of War & Navy, hereafter would report directly to Franklin Roosevelt. Louis Johnson's sidetracked superior, Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, was inspecting the Panama Canal last week...
...Eight Latin American countries declared war in 1917 and 1918: Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. But practically speaking none of them took part except economically...