Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central America's seven sequestered little nations. It is therefore with genuine delight and excitement that all of them have looked forward for months to the dedication this week of a modern motor highway reaching nearly a quarter of the 3,200 miles from the U. S. to Panama and filling in one more great gap in the long-awaited Inter-American Highway...
...imagination of the delegates, was undertaken after enthusiastic endorsement by subsequent conferences and by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. When the U. S. Congress appropriated $50,000 in 1929 for a reconnaissance survey to start the work in Central America, the first Inter-American Highway Congress was held in Panama, created a commission which has driven the work ahead at a great rate in Central America...
...Central American countries except Mexico and El Salvador the road-building is largely due to U.S. paternalism and funds. Last November President Roosevelt gave $340,000 to Panama, Honduras and Guatemala for three bridges. U. S. donations to date: some $1,500,000. In Mexico and El Salvador, however, the roads have been almost entirely national work. This week's dedication is of the first section so completed in Mexico, the 770 miles from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico...
...which trickles into nothing but a track with occasional good patches as it cuts across a corner of Honduras into Nicaragua. In that country the 214 miles of Inter-American Highway are universally bad. Costa Rica is next, with 356 miles, mostly impassable trail. Then the route slips into Panama, where it again becomes a first-class road for 300 miles to Panama City...
...Plutarco Elias Calles, recently exiled to the U. S., was formerly the "Strong Man" of (1 Brazil, 2 Panama, 3 Mexico, 4 Cuba, 5 Venezuela...