Word: panama
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Construction on the Pan American Highway to Panama, which has been sputtering along on a lean budget, got a high-octane boost last week. On the recommendation of Vice President Nixon, who toured Central America in February, President Eisenhower asked Congress to accelerate the U.S. contribution for completing the 3,200-mile Laredo-to-Panama road. Earlier, the President had budgeted $5,750,000 for the highway for the next fiscal year; now he wants $75 million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought...
...Panama, where a determined tourist can pick up the road after a sea trip, has a road of varying quality to the canal. Beyond lies the forbidding Darien country-400 miles of lofty jungles, wide rivers and spiny mountains not yet even surveyed...
...Darien breach is probably a job for another generation. But Nixon guessed that even closing the Central American gaps would take 15 to 25 years at the present rate. The speedup he recommended to Washington will-he hopes-finish the road to Panama in four years...
...Flint or Fresno who dreams of some day loading the wife and kids in the family sedan and steering a few weeks later across the big swinging bridge over the Panama Canal, prospects looked a little brighter last week. Rolling up its maps in Mexico City at the end of one of its occasional meetings, the directing committee of the Pan American Highway Congress released information showing that only 6% of the 3,200-mile Laredo-to-Panama stretch is still missing. Work is going ahead on two of the three main gaps, and Vice President Richard Nixon has called...
...Urged that the 3,200-mile Texas-to-Panama section of the Pan American Highway be finished in a U.S.-sponsored speed-up that would close the 186 miles of gaps in four years...