Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pronounced Nyawlians, never (despite Tin Pan Alley) New Orleans. *Which was abolished 20 years later...
...Manchuria outnumbered Nationalist forces clung to a few encircled cities, including Changchun and Mukden; Ying-pan, an approach to the strategic Fushun coal center, was besieged. The rest of Manchuria was in Communist hands. Nationalist losses had been heavy...
Planner. The first morning, Paul Daniels summoned his deputy, Robert F. Woodward, and spent an hour with him going over general diplomatic problems. Then, at 10:30, Career Man Daniels, who has worked all over Latin America in 20 years of foreign service, hustled off to the Pan American Union to tackle his toughest assignment of the moment. As U.S. representative on the Inter-American Economic and Social Council, Daniels was soon knee-deep in planning for the Pan American Conference to be held at Bogo ta in January. On the council's work largely depends the success...
Latin Americans have a lot of ideas about what should be done at Bogota, particularly in the economic field. Most Latin American nations are hungry for dollars, many have full-blown inflation. Colombia last week outlined to the Pan American Union planners a scheme for a $5 billion U.S. loan to finance industrialization of Latin America, stabilize local currencies. In Rio de Janeiro, U.S. -wise Brazilian Businessman Valentim Bougas urged Latin Americans to follow the ex ample of European nations, which met in Paris last summer to canvass their needs. Latin delegates, Bougas said, should get together at Bogota...
Signal-Caller. The State Department, for its part, would like to see the conferees at Bogota limit themselves to one main enterprise: a more effective and tightly knit union of the Americas. This would be achieved by treaties to strengthen Pan American cooperation in military and political matters. State hopes that the conference will avoid embarrassing floor-wrangling over economic aid. Such controversies, successfully postponed at the Rio Conference last summer, should be postponed again, the U.S. feels, until a purely economic meeting to be held later...