Word: interallied
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...build the inter-American Highway are heroes in the villages of Mexico and Central America. Engineers are given free meals, free rides on buses, are often made guests of honor at special fiestas. Villagers, unconcerned with the highway's long-distance aspects, as a link in inter-American unity, see it in its local character, as an immediately useful road. The road ends age-old isolation, makes it possible to get bananas to market, to exchange them for huaraches and cooking pots, to trade Honduran lumber for Salvadoran sugar and corn...
...miles from the U.S. border to the Panama Canal, 425 miles are usable only in dry weather, 245 miles through jungle and mountain country are still impassable. Three years and $65,000,000 will finish the job, said white-haired E. W. James, chief of the Inter-American Regional Office of the Public Roads Administration, last week...
...plight of the plan, and of Argentina, was summed up in a blunt letter written to Perón by slim, brisk Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired. As president of the Inter-American Construction Corp., Lord was hired by Perón last winter (TIME, Feb. 3) to draw blueprints for the plan's engineering projects. From his cluttered headquarters on Buenos Aires' Calle Uruguay, General Lord wrote...
...Brazilian Government thought it had just the place for the oft-postponed Inter-American Conference, now scheduled for next month. The place was Quitandinha, the plush resort hotel just outside the summer capital of Petropolis. But the Government had hardly announced its choice when foreign correspondents let out a loud squawk...
Japan will be opened to private trade on August 15. So the War Department announced this week. But trade will be small at first. Only 400 businessmen will be admitted into Japan, under allocations to the Allied Nations by the Inter-Allied Trade Board of the Far Eastern Commission in Washington. And SCAP must approve the traders. To make sure that businessmen already in Japan do not jump the gun, no deals can be made until September...