Vocational Opportunities for Students of Modern Languages

Finally it is well to remember that the war has made the American engineering profession known in every part of the globe. American engineers are building highways and airports in China, railroads in Iran, airports in Italy, India, Australia, and Africa, and setting up steel plants, oil refineries, and other establishments in South America. The people in these foreign lands are seeing new types of United States machinery for the first time and they find them good. The Russians want more of them, so do the Chinese, and particularly the peoples in the broad lands of the other Americas. In these desires lie a vast post-war opportunity for American engineers and the machines they are creating. This demand will rise when the shooting stops. There will be vast construction jobs to be done, not only where the earth has been seared but also in those regions like Central and South America which must be depended upon to develop their natural resources to help feed and house and clothe the impoverished world. This, then, is the story of opportunities in Latin America as I see it. Epitomized, it means hard work and special preparation here in the United States, to be followed by such rewards as these efforts merit. Modern history has set the stage. There is no question but that the chances exist, but youth should not be impatient; it must not forget that after the war will come a critical period in world affairs. Years will be required to organize social and economic stability, but of one thing we can all be reasonably sure, the opportunities in world trade, and therefore in the field of Inter-American commerce, will be greater than ever before.-Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Pan American Union, March, 1944

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