The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

USNS Schuyler Otis Bland ( T-AK-277 ) was known to have brought highly classified " agriculture products " under armed guard to southeast Asia, Okinawa, and Panama.

This was compounded by transportation problems-the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.

The influence of these policies, along with the US invasion of Panama, was instrumental in drawing Panama into the Central American model of neoliberalism.

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, starting with the Suez Canal ( 1869 )-which carries tonnage many times that of most other canals-and the Kiel Canal ( 1897 ), though the Panama Canal was not opened until 1914.

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Panama was a part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada, and then, following independence, became part of Gran Colombia.

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

Almagro took part in the incursions, foundations and conquests developed in the Gulf of Panama, participating once again in the expeditions of Espinosa, who was known to travel in the ships of Balboa.

* FERISTSA Railway was proposed to connect Mexico with Panama via Guatemala using standard gauge rails

The French Panama Canal Company, headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, had been attempting to build a sea-level canal, but came to the realization that this was impractical.

The base was also an important intermediate distribution point for World War II merchant shipping convoys from New York City and Key West, Florida, to the Panama Canal and the islands of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.

Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries – and secured a promise from the great liberator, Simón Bolívar, that he would free their slaves after winning independence from Spain – the nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, held in Panama in 1826.

The United States noticed: it was in US interests to contain Zelaya, protect the region of the new Panama Canal, and defend the increasingly important banana trade.

In addition to the dramatic drop in banana exports caused by the depression, the fruit industry was further threatened by the outbreak in 1935 of epidemics of Panama disease ( a debilitating fungus ) and sigatoka ( leaf blight ) in the banana-producing areas.

Panama, during the military dictatorships of Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega, was nominally a presidential republic.

The ham was awarded first prize in the 1915 Panama International Merchandise Exhibition.

In keeping with the band's satirical nature, each member had a comical name: in addition to Kinky there was Little Jewford, Big Nig, Panama Red, Wichita Culpepper, Sky Cap Adams, Rainbow Colours, and Snakebite Jacobs.

Plans were made to take advantage of this route to build an interoceanic canal, the Nicaragua Canal, but the Panama Canal was built instead.

In 1538, the Viceroyalty of New Spain was established, encompassing all of Mexico and Central America, except Panama.

Between two and three miles out of town was a cutoff, Southeast 120th Street today, which went west towards Eichelberger Cave, located near present-day County Road 467.

Ethyl Eichelberger ( born James Roy Eichelberger, July 17, 1945 – August 12, 1990 ) was an American drag performer, playwright, and actor.

Ethyl Eichelberger was born James Roy Eichelberger on July 17, 1945 in Pekin, Illinois.

* Ethyl Eichelberger DNG — Born James Roy Eichelberger, a famous drag queen, playwright and actor, for whom a prize was founded by the downtown Manhattan theatre institution P. S.

Eichelberger later wrote that " the fighting was desperate and the outcome of the whole miserable, tortured campaign was in doubt ".

Eichelberger wrote back that he was pushing the offensive with the kinds of numbers he felt the situation warranted.

In his book, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo written in 1950, Eichelberger wrote, " Buna was ... bought at a substantial price in death, wounds, disease, despair, and human suffering.

Robert Lawrence Eichelberger ( 9 March 1886 – 26 September 1961 ) was a general officer in the United States Army, who commanded the Eighth United States Army in the South West Pacific Area during World War II.

Robert Lawrence Eichelberger was born at Urbana, Ohio on 9 March 1886, the youngest of five children of George Maley Eichelberger, a farmer and lawyer, and Emma Ring Eichelberger.

Eichelberger was a poor student, as he had been at high school and Ohio State, but did become a cadet lieutenant, and graduated 68th in his class of 103.

Eichelberger was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 25th Infantry on 11 June 1909, but was transferred to the 10th Infantry at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, on 22 July.

It too was sent to the Mexican border, and was based at Douglas, Arizona, where Eichelberger was promoted to first lieutenant on 1 July 1916.

Following the American entry into World War I in April 1917, Eichelberger was promoted to captain on 15 May.

While he was en route to California, Eichelberger learned from Graves that the 8th Division's destination had changed, and it was now bound for Siberia instead.

Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.

It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.

I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

That was where he met Penny.

No wonder Wright was enchanted -- no two better suited people ever met.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.

But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.

Brittany, that stone-gray mystery through which he traveled for thirty days, sleeping in the barns of farmers or alongside roads, had worked some subtle change in him, he knew, and it was in Brittany that he had met Pierre.

But when this proposal was made to his Deacon Board, he met unanimous opposition.

Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.

He also met Count Rumford ( born Benjamin Thompson in Woburn, Mass. ) who was then serving the Elector of Bavaria, and the physicist Ritter ; ;

The earlier New Haven development was public housing, so it easily leaped over the problems met in a private venture.

Fran and he had met about two years after she had arrived in Manhattan from Nebraska, or was it Wyoming??

It was during her `` writing '' period that she and Herb met and decided that they were in love.