Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smiling, bespectacled little man in a baggy white suit and a battered Panama hat stepped unobtrusively off a silver Pan American airliner at the Honolulu airport one day last week. Leaning on his cane, Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida bowed and shook hands all around with the American greeters who towered above him, spoke politely about the "loyalty and bravery" of American-born Japanese, and cast no more than a sweeping glance at the skeletal cranes and hangars of Pearl Harbor. Then he took off again, heading for San Francisco to sign the formal peace between Japan and 51 powers...
...have often reported to you on the work of TIME correspondents from Rangoon to Boston. This week I would like to show you on the accompanying map how they are spotted in the world's news centers. Twenty-seven news bureaus, all but three of them (Singapore, Beirut, Panama) permanent offices, are the bases from which 69 TIME correspondents range out to cover the most important stories. These correspondents supply the bulk of the material for any issue. Branching from this staff, sometimes reporting to it but more often reporting directly to the editors, is a network...
...shelter, almost 14 times what it spends for transportation. It would buy enough four-door Chevrolet sedans to stretch bumper to bumper four times around the world. It would provide for all U.S. medical care for eight years, or all U.S. education for a decade. It would build 200 Panama Canals...
This year Brazil alone has had more than 4,000 cases of yellow fever, 500 deaths. Across the Andes in Ecuador, supposedly free of the disease since 1929, there have been 60 cases, 25 deaths. Even Panama's record has been spoiled: seven deaths in about two years...
...learn more about the jungle carrier, sanitary experts have set up dozens of forest stations in Panama. There, well vaccinated Indians display themselves on outdoor platforms, invite mosquitoes to bite them and be trapped for science. Well paid by Panama standards ($70 to $90 a month), the Indians consider it nice work...