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price-earnings ratios seen in line; prices of stocks in Standard & Poor index were 13.28 times earnings, Dec 31; highest ratios occur in recessions; narrow spread between stock and bond yields seen favorable table
Ger-Ital comm planned to study replacing Ger draftees with Ital labor; Ital Communist opposition, other problems discussed
Premier Mendes-France expected to urge GB and US to back Big-4 conf after,France completes ratification
PARIS, Jan. 1 -- Dag Hammarskjold left Europe today for China, briefed on what the British and French think can be done to keep peace in Asia. The United Nations Secretary General's main job is to seek the freedom of eleven United States airmen, held as spies in China, and other imprisoned United Nations personnel.
1955Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.[†]
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half of the country's over 4 million inhabitants.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]