Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signed May 18, the agreement legalized the status of the U.S. air base at Rio Hato; granted the U.S. other bases' within Panama; allowed U.S. use of adjacent waters. In return, the U.S. gives over building lots worth $11,500,000 in Colon and Panama City; delivers American-built water and sewer systems in the two cities; pays off $2,700,000 of Panama indebtedness incurred in building a highway to Rio Hato...
Last week the President also: > Was host to Ecuador's firm, friendly President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, one of the Americas' stanchest Good Neighbors. At the White House President Arroyo was guest at a state dinner, remained overnight, discussed long and earnestly with Franklin Roosevelt the prospects for post-war economic unity in the Western Hemisphere...
Over CBS (Sunday, 5-5:30, P.W.T.) the sonorous Welles voice besought North Americans to get to know their South American friends better. His first broadcast (Hello, Americans!) for Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Affairs committee was laid (by dramatic license) in Rio de Janeiro, where Welles had recently passed three months making a picture (It's All True, as yet unreleased). With the assistance of Carmen Miranda, an orchestra, a cast, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, enthusiastic Orson took his listeners on a radio Cook's tour of Brazil that was lively, though bumpy in spots...
...possible solution to the military surgeon's problem of regenerating severed nerves was suggested last week by Dr. Nilson de Rezende of Rio de Janeiro in the New York State Journal of Medicine. His method: transplantation of nerves from cadavers, and the use of glue instead of stitches to hold the grafts in place. Destruction of sections of the peripheral nerves (those near the surface of the skin) is rare in civil life, says Dr. de Rezende, but it occurred in 3,500 of the 200,000 U.S. casualties in World...
Lieut, (j.g.) Arnold Welles, 26-year-old son of Under Secretary of State Sumner, reached Rio de Janeiro to start work at the U.S. Embassy as a naval aide...