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Word: costa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COSTA RICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE,COSTA RICA: Victory for Private Enterprise | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...Niemeyer's flowing, two-story Presidential Palace, resting on 20 arched concrete columns. Chugging ahead night and day on a cost-be-damned basis, hundreds of bulldozers move 65,300 cubic yds. of earth every 24 hours, hurrying to completion the airplane-shaped city designed by Architect Lucio Costa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: New Capital | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...smaller members of the United Nations often find it hard to keep their U.N. delegations up to strength. Budgets cannot stand the cost of salaries for a full complement, and qualified, self-supporting volunteers are rare. Last year Costa Rica's U.N. Ambassador Alberto Canas found one-a charming Alabaman named Henrietta Boggs, 37. Her Costa Rican qualification: marriage from 1942 to 1953 to President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Her means of support, Pepe's alimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Wifely Duty | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Alerted by Pierce's pencil, the editors found that their map had somehow lost its bearings entirely. Missouri was where Arkansas should be; West Virginia was labeled Maryland; New Jersey displaced Delaware; Costa Rica had swallowed up Panama. A staff artist had slapped the map together with little care and editors had approved it with less attention. The News was faced with a problem that haunts many an editor: a serious error in an early run section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Making a Mistake Pay | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Spain, Austria and Greece are trumpeting their bargain-rate attractions. On Spain's craggy, eastern Costa Brava, hotel and cottage prices have zoomed 1,000% since 1950, but a fisherman's seaside cottage still rents for $70 a month. In Austria, pensions are charging as little as $3.30 a day with three meals. In Athens, an air-conditioned deluxe hotel room with bath and breakfast costs $7. For tourists who seek to savor the Continent's off-the-beaten-path charms, Greek villagers rent out clean rooms, are reluctant to take payment from foreigners. No nation will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Grand Tour | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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