Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, back in the plane, everyone has forgotten about the pretty stewardess from Panama who was doing a good job until she fell out of the plane during the storm. And there is the skeptical Las Vegas hood who, unlike the audience, knows for certain there is no chance of getting out of the jungle...
Only the residents of the Panama Canal Zone remained relatively in place-population...
With a new zeal that bordered on perfectionism, Ike threw himself anew into soldiering. Serving nearly three years (1922-24) in Panama with a little-known man of fire, Brigadier General Fox Conner, Ike did such a stringent job as executive officer that many of his juniors have neither forgotten nor forgiven. In his spare hours he buried himself in extracurricular study of maps, charts and treatises of the great historical campaigns prescribed by his mentor Fox Conner. Night after night (Mamie went home to Denver to have another child-son John) the intense young major and the spark-eyed...
...claim that our President has not been a leader in foreign affairs in view of his role in the Geneva and Panama Conferences, his open-skies proposals, the "Atoms for Peace Program," his great efforts toward world disarmament, and the frequent good-will tours in which he has sent members of his Cabinet and of his family: You do not mention the achievements of the settlement of the Iran and Trieste disputes, the unification of Austria, the rearmament of Germany and its incorporation into NATO, and the reconstruction of Korea...
...even Texas tall talk can exaggerate the waterway's real importance. Enormous industries today stand bound together by a water highway carrying 41 million tons of freight some 7 billion ton-miles annually-more tonnage over a greater distance than either the Kiel or the Panama Canal. Touching every major Gulf port, it has helped boost New Orleans into the nation's No. 2 seaport, transformed Houston from an inland city into one of the busiest U.S. ports, handling $500 million worth of waterway cargo alone last year, including everything from autos to seashells. The waterway has also...