Word: panama
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Ichthyology & the Reds. Thanks to an unmilitary, scholarly commanding general named John Palmer, Lieut. White, while stationed in Panama as an infantry subaltern, got interested in both free-soaring thought and the young, free-soaring Air Corps. In 1924 he got an assignment to flight school at Brooks Field, Texas, won his wings...
...leviathans will be 131 ft. shorter but a full 16 ft. wider than the Queen Elizabeth, world's biggest passenger liner. Though none of the ships will be able to squeeze through the Suez or Panama Canals, they will cost far less to operate while hauling far more cargo than smaller ships, even though forced to take longer routes...
...Navy shipyard in Kure in 1951 that runs to 1961, can be renewed to 1966. To fuel his fleet of more than 40 ships, which he sails with low-cost West Indian crews under the Liberian flag, Ludwig is building a 70,000-bbl.-a-day day refinery in Panama, also has a 1,000,000-acre Venezuelan ranch whose 10,000 head of cattle may soon supply his ships with meat...
Died. Bernard Ralph Maybeck, 95, pioneer modern architect, "grandfather of the California style," designer of the Palace of Fine Arts for San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition; in Berkeley, Calif. Some 5 ft. small, his head ever topped, outdoors or in, with a knitted tam-o'-shanter, his gnomelike beard imitating Santa Claus, Maybeck was one of the first to design walls of glass, one of the first practitioners of "open planning" to allow for expansion, invented (in 1890s) the kitchen-dining-living-room combination...
...PANAMA OIL hunt is exciting wildcatters. Although country has no producing well, U.S. combine of Champlin Oil & Refining Co. (50%), Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc. (25%) and Southland Royalty Co. (25%) has picked up 870,000-acre concession, plans to drill two wells early in 1958. Also in the search: United Fruit Co., which recently got 1,000,000-acre concession...