Word: colima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vancouver, Commy agitators who had no connection with shipping succeeded in delaying another shipment of 630 tons of ammunition. Before it could be loaded on the Pakistan-owned freighter Colima, 100 pickets (many from the University of British Columbia), led by avowed Communists, paraded past the pier with signs reading: "Students say no arms to Fascists," and "Load bread, not bullets, on the Colima." Anti-Communist labor leaders in Vancouver and Ottawa forced the meddlesome Reds to back down and withdraw their pickets. But the Colima had overrun her charter date for loading the cargo, and Chinese officials...
...Palacio de Bellas Artes, suggested that Rivera give his collection a public airing. When art historians got busy on the collection they found that what they had long called Tarascan art, and knew almost nothing about, was actually a collection of several cultures in the states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit. A German-born ethnologist, Dr. Paul Kirchhoff, was called in to lend a hand. He found that Rivera had one of the greatest treasuries...
Hardest hit was the tropical city of Colima (pop. 20,000) in the foothills near the coast. At the first shock the dam guarding Colima's water supply collapsed, power lines went down, communications were cut off. Half the buildings in Colima crumbled into dust. The cathedral, rebuilt after the quake that struck Colima in 1932, was destroyed again. That night Colima was lighted up by the dull glow of forest fires, touched off by the city's charcoal-burning dumps when panic-stricken workers abandoned them...
While President Manuel Avila Camacho rushed troops and supplies to Colima by plane, Mexico set about the methodical task of totting up its damage. Dead were at least 84 people, including 36 at Colima, 27 at Tuxpan in the State of Jalisco. Mexico City miraculously suffered no casualties. Property losses were reckoned at more than $2,000,000. Of these, some $800,000 were in Mexico City...