Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians of Panama used...
...time yellow jack was lurking in the jungles. The dread mosquito carriers spread yellow fever from animal to animal, and from animals to the few men who ventured deep into the forests. The doctors and engineers who cleaned up the cities and labor camps of Panama never suppressed the guerrillas in the jungle...
This week, carrying out a 1950 Act of Congress, the U.S. reorganized its $515 million enterprises on the Isthmus of Panama. Besides the main business of transiting ships from ocean to ocean and collecting tolls, the U.S. operates many auxiliary projects: railroads, steamships, commissaries, power plants, theaters. Some have been run by an efficient Government-owned corporation called the Panama Railroad Co., some by a sprawling Government agency called the Panama Canal. In the reshuffle, all business functions, including ship transits, were put under the railroad's corporate charter, leaving only Canal Zone civil government to bureaucrats. The expanded...
...equator, as far south of New York as Los Angeles is west. Its 3,200,000 people are mostly illiterate Indians and mestizos living under towering Andean volcanos, delving and spinning much as their ancestors did in Incaic times. Most noteworthy products: rice, bananas, balsa wood, Panama hats, shrunken heads. Most urgent needs: education, roads, earthquake damage repair, all of which President Plaza hopes to discuss this week with Washington lending authorities...
...Puerto Rico. 4. Panama...