Word: ia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottleneck through which the waters of the 3,000-mile-Iong river pour out of the Szechwan basin and Tibetan foothills onto the flat paddies of China's rice bowl. Then as now, the enormous power of the Yangtze ran wild in floodtime while the Chinese shrugged ia resignation. Even now, damming the Yangtze is a bigger job than China can cope with...
MILTON M. IDZAL, O.D. Sioux City, Ia...
...Agony Column. In Manhattan, a mother inserted an item in the personal notices: "Julius. You're IA. Come home...
...comparison, the story of the first U.S. ventures, involved in the tangle of airmail contracts in the U.S.. embittered by perplexing fights over routes, makes chastening reading for Americans. A few people-Elmer Faucett of Compaňia de Aviación Faucett and Hugh Wells of Cóndor Peruana de Aviación-challenged the European combines. The German stranglehold was broken when Axis airlines were nationalized by Latin American governments in the past two years. And now, says Aviation Assistant Burden, in cautious language: "The airplane promises to give Latin America a semblance of physical unity...
...crumb popped into Pan Am's mouth: one of the five companies favored was Compañia Nacional Cubana de Aviacion, which Pan Am owns. The other two companies: Expreso Aereo Inter-Americano, S.A., for service between Miami and Havana; and Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM), Miami to Curaçao and Aruba...