Word: pan-american
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...America had ever doubted that the U. S. was serious in its plan to set up a giant economic union to control All-American exports (TIME, June 24), that doubt disappeared last week. Before leaving for Hyde Park, the President ordered full speed ahead on the All-American economic cartel, the biggest, most urgent "must" on the Administration's schedule. In Washington, the plan was put at the top of the agenda for a Pan-American Conference at Havana, scheduled for June 26. The State Department, acting at "total speed," thither invited the representatives of the 20 Latin American...
...nervous Canadians, his word that they would not be excluded. Others asked, What about Argentina's plan: To organize South American economy for South Americans, in preparation for the post-war boom which many Buenos Aires businessmen expected? Would Latin American surpluses inevitably lead to the establishment of national quotas, which would lead to Latin American AAAs? Would the U. S., by withholding America's pooled commodities from belligerents, turn the plan into a Pan-American embargo...
These how-nows could not yet be answered. But in Washington's urgent mood, they were beside the point. In Washington's view, the pressing need now was to make Pan-American unity, long a postponable might-be, an impregnable here...
President General Alfredo Baldomir accepted an invitation to President Roosevelt's proposed inter-American economic conference to try to see how far the hemisphere's abundance might be traded within the hemisphere (see p. 12). He went even further, suggested a Pan-American conference of ministers of war and chiefs of staff to study problems of mutual defense...
...Robert Erastus Wilson, balding, science-wise president of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co.. holder of 88 chemical and engineering patents. Meanwhile, in the production side of the commission, hulking William S. Knudsen, on leave from the presidency of General Motors, has also reached into business...