Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Fruit's troubles are also the troubles of Central America, 80% of whose monthly crop of 100,000 tons of bananas rots in the fields for lack of shipping to the U.S. Broke and disillusioned, the people of five banana-exporting Central American republics (Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras) are now angry at the United Nations' policy that annihilated their chief export but failed to provide them with any other means of employment. The problem is all the more acute since Government revenues, which might be used for unemployment relief, in most cases are largely dependent...
...graduated from Brooklyn Girls' High School into a job as a chorus girl in an Ethel Waters show at Manhattan's Cotton Club. She was put in big time by a spell at Hollywood's Little Troc cabaret. Her first film appearance, a sequence in Panama Hattie, proved the high point of a dull show. She continued as Georgia Brown in the cinema version of Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, and is scheduled for M.G.M.'s Meet the People...
With the immediate result Administration Spokesman Tom Connally was well enough satisfied: the Senate, 40 votes to 29, passed a joint resolution validating an agreement with Panama on U.S. property and war bases...
...another of the 21 Republicans who (with seven Democrats and Independent George W. Norris) were opposed to approving the agreement; they spoke much more of the danger of short-circuiting the Senate than of the legislation itself, or its purpose of keeping the U.S. end of a bargain Panama had fulfilled...
...Signed May 18, the agreement legalized the status of the U.S. air base at Rio Hato; granted the U.S. other bases' within Panama; allowed U.S. use of adjacent waters. In return, the U.S. gives over building lots worth $11,500,000 in Colon and Panama City; delivers American-built water and sewer systems in the two cities; pays off $2,700,000 of Panama indebtedness incurred in building a highway to Rio Hato...