Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scuttle, Scuttle, Scuttle, Up and up went Ethiopia's jig as a total of three central American countries resigned in disgust from the League (Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua) and Poland crashed through last week with a decree from Warsaw ending Polish Sanctions against Italy. Argentina seemed to be about the hardest nut for Britain to crack this week in the efforts of "Tony" Eden to crack all the Sanctions he was a leader in creating few months ago. Considering the British chiefly as customers for Argentine meat, supposing they meant all Mr. Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious...
Motorists have driven around the world but between North and South America no wheel has ever rolled. This fact largely explains the backwardness and poverty of Central America's seven sequestered little nations. It is therefore with genuine delight and excitement that all of them have looked forward for months to the dedication this week of a modern motor highway reaching nearly a quarter of the 3,200 miles from the U. S. to Panama and filling in one more great gap in the long-awaited Inter-American Highway...
...American states in Santiago, Chile in 1923, the road immediately fired the imagination of the delegates, was undertaken after enthusiastic endorsement by subsequent conferences and by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. When the U. S. Congress appropriated $50,000 in 1929 for a reconnaissance survey to start the work in Central America, the first Inter-American Highway Congress was held in Panama, created a commission which has driven the work ahead at a great rate in Central America...
...Central American countries except Mexico and El Salvador the road-building is largely due to U.S. paternalism and funds. Last November President Roosevelt gave $340,000 to Panama, Honduras and Guatemala for three bridges. U. S. donations to date: some $1,500,000. In Mexico and El Salvador, however, the roads have been almost entirely national work. This week's dedication is of the first section so completed in Mexico, the 770 miles from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico...
...railroad equipment trust, ownership of the air equipment will be vested in a trustee until the last installment is paid. On railroad rolling stock this ownership is revealed by a plaque with a legend like this: "New York Central Lines Equipment Trust of 1924. Guaranty Trust Co. of N. Y., trustee, owner." On a coach the plaque is usually riveted to the side of the car, on a locomotive below the cab. On American Airlines equipment a plaque to the same effect will probably be attached to the fuselage under the wing...