Word: canals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strapping in a well-tailored grey-blue suit, he swaggered into Cairo's canopied Republic Square. Just two years earlier, getting ready to nationalize the Suez Canal Co., he had yelled: "Americans, may you choke to death in your fury." Now the crowd of 100,000, assembled by trucks and bargain-rate excursion trains from all over Egypt, roared "Ya Gamal!" (O Gamal!). At length, the huge square stilled, and the President and his honor guests from Iraq waited briefly, during a reading from the Koran: "Those who oppose truth will die angry, but we will conquer." Then, mopping...
...Nationalized Suez Canal Co., following the U.S. withdrawal of its offer to help build $1.3 billion Aswan dam ("Americans, may you choke on your fury"). Then his armies were badly beaten by the invading British, French and Israelis...
Welcome News. By last week the most worrisome signs of anti-U.S. feeling-forays into the Canal Zone by flag-planting, nationalistic Panamanian students-were more than two months in the past, and spectators along the road from the airport to Panama City stood peacefully as Milton rode past at 40 m.p.h...
...foot in Panama, Milton delivered the welcome news that a joint U.S. House-Senate committee had just agreed to end the controversial double standard under which U.S. and Panamanian Canal employees are paid according to separate wage scales. His No. 1 mission, however, is asking questions and getting answers about Central America's economic problems, and he took along key men to help him with the job. With him were Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American Affairs; Tom B. Coughran, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh; and Development Loan Fund...
...tropical construction work-Colonel John Nickerson, court-martialed for leaking Army rocket secrets to newsmen (TIME, July 8, 1957) heard the good news: restoration of his military command functions, assignment to a post right down his alley, as ordnance officer of the Caribbean Command with headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone...