Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored, discussed U. S. aid to help Panama build roads (as a Canal defense measure), lunched with Governor Clarence Ridley of the Canal Zone, rode across the Isthmus in a special train...
After inspecting the military bases, complimenting all hands on the Zone's "smart appearance'' and their own "military bearing," Franklin Roosevelt reboarded the Houston in Gatun Locks...
Howard Robard Hughes's flight around the Temperate Zone (see pp. 36, 50) last week had every managing editor poised for a beat on his local rivals. Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis. Same day, in its final edition, the Times crowed that it had beaten its competitors to the street by 27 minutes with the story of Hughes's landing in New York...
...seldom meet, when out to walk, Either the Orchid or the Auk. The awkward Auk is only known To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone, While Orchids can be found in legions, Within the equatorial regions. So if by chance you travel on The Lena or the Amazon, Be certain of the temperature Or you will make mistakes I'm sure...
...rental of the Canal Zone, the U. S. Government in 1904 contracted to pay the Republic of Panama $250,000 annually. When President Roosevelt knocked the U. S. dollar down to 59? in 1934, the U. S. handsomely agreed to up the annual rent to $430,000. But since the day the new rent was first due (Feb. 26, 1934), the U. S. has paid not a cent, now owes $2,150,000. Reason: The new agreement was buried in the revamped U. S.-Panama treaty, still unratified by the U. S. Senate, presumably because of the fear that other...