... with an agreement with the Republic
of Panama, and before the date of termination of
the Panama Canal Treaty, to the American Battle
Monuments Commission the administration of
such part of Corozal ... Treaty
means that either of the two Parties to the Treaty may,
in accordance with its constitutional processes, take
unilateral action to defend the Panama Canal against
any th...
... reason.
During the Stamp Act crisis, Americans argued that there
was a difference between a tax for revenue and a tax for the
regulation of trade—Parliament, the Americans said, lacked
the authority to pass ... 2,664 applicants) for African
American, Asian, Native American, and Latino applicants,
and the school established lower academic requirements for
these individuals th...
... Canada,
opened up the American industrial and agricultural heart-
land to oceangoing vessels. A series of canals, dams, and locks
allows ships to travel the Great Lakes all the way to Chicago.
Other major ... weather pattern occasionally moved
as far north as Nebraska and the Dakotas. Dust storms in
1935 carried away wheat—half of the crop in Kansas, one-
fourth in Oklahoma, and...
... when the
United States emerged from the Spanish -American War as a
power in the Caribbean and the Pacific. A canal across
Central America seemed necessary so that the U.S. fleet could
participate easily ... In-
dochina and joined the Axis powers as a result of the Tripar-
tite Pact. In April 1941, the Japanese signed a neutrality
agreement with the Soviet Union and be...
... 2002.
See also Vo lume 1: Iran-Contra; Panama and Panama
Canal; Reagan, Ronald.
NIPA
See National Income and Product Accounts.
NIRA
See National Industrial Recovery Act.
NLRB
See National Labor Relations ... the Con-
tras. During the ensuing Contra War of the 1980s, the
Nicaraguan economy deteriorated because of warfare and an
American embargo on Nicaraguan goods that began in
198...
... of the colony, the
United States became increasingly interested in acquiring the
islands as a strategic asset guarding eastern approaches to the
Isthmus of Panama and later to the Panama Canal. ... is the only major industrialized nation that did not suffer a
significant attack on its industrial base. Warfare ravaged Eu-
rope and Japan but American factories emerged from the...
... 1894 at the American Bankers As-
sociation meeting by a banker from New York and another
from Baltimore, was known as the Baltimore Plan and rested
on the idea that financial and currency stability ... early 1800s, changes in the economy con-
vinced many Americans that educational reform was needed.
The growth of the cash economy and the withering away of
the barter and...
... American Bar Asso-
ciation [ABA] and the American Association of Law Schools
[AALS] wanted to excluded immigrants because they did not
espouse the values of the dominant Anglo-Saxon Protes-
tants.) ... financial market
stability and price stability. The federal funds rate stands at
historically low levels in an attempt to foster a sustained re-
covery in the American economy...
... peculiar to the southern states; as are hitherto Lead
& Coal. Flax and Hemp are or may be raised in greater abun-
dance there, than in the More Northern states, and the Wool
of Virginia is said ... destroy the U.S.
Pacific Fleet and seize the American colony of the Philip-
pines. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the first step in the
plan, and with it came American entry...
... otherwise, revert to the Republic of Panama, under
any contracts or concessions, with said Wyse, the Universal
Panama Canal Company, the Panama Railroad Company and
the New Panama Canal Company.
The ... Panama, whose decisions as to such damages
shall be final and whose awards as to such damages shall be
paid solely by the United States. No part of the work on said
Canal or the...