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...Darien breach is probably a job for another generation. But Nixon guessed that even closing the Central American gaps would take 15 to 25 years at the present rate. The speedup he recommended to Washington will-he hopes-finish the road to Panama in four years...
...mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close the gap and pave the rest of the highway-now mostly gravel-through that country...
...DEFENSE SPEEDUP, which has brought $1.2 billion in Air Force contracts to planemakers in three months, has spread to the Navy's air arm, which spent $700 million for new equipment in October alone. Biggest contracts: $194 million to United Aircraft Corp. for jet engines, propellers and helicopters; $165 million to Grumman Aircraft, mostly for its new supersonic F9F9 "Coke Bottle" jet fighter (TIME...
Unusually high attrition of maids and more appealing weekly student jobs have caused a speedup in deconversion of the cleaning system to heavy duty "dormitory crews...
...program designed to give a "nudge" to slow sections of the economy, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks last week announced a speedup in Government spending for military procurement, highway and airport construction and shipbuilding. A two-year, $385 million program of shipbuilding, said Weeks, will be the biggest peacetime project of its kind in history. In addition, the Maritime Board announced a $65.8 million deal with American President Lines,* to include construction of two new passenger-freighter vessels, purchase of four Mariner ships from the Maritime Administration and of two luxury liners (the President Cleveland and President Wilson) now operated...