Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gundy Co., Ltd. wanted to start an airline. Keys suggested a Lima-to-Montreal route, got a charter from the Peruvian Government, and raised $4,000,000 from Americans, Canadians, and Peruvians. P.I.A.'s first route, which it hopes to be operating before March: Lima to Montreal via Panama City, Havana, and New York. This may prove potent competition for Panagra. And if P.I.A. ever makes the obvious extension to Buenos Aires, it will have a New York-to-Buenos Aires route 700 miles shorter than Pan-American Airways...
Expressing the American attitude, Somerville asked and answered three questions: "British control in Suez? why not? American control in Panama? Why not? But Russian control in the Dardanelles? why, certainly...
Committee Six: Legal Matters (adoption of an official U.N. Emblem, codification of international law). Chairman: Panama's Roberto Jimenez...
...business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
Died. Lady Brown (Lilian Alice Roussel), 63, explorer, author (Unknown Tribes; Uncharted Seas), whose expeditions in Central America discovered the Chucunaque Indian tribe in Panama and excavated the lost Mayan city of Lubaantun in British Honduras; after long illness; in Rye, Sussex, England...