Word: costas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Costa Rica's beautiful up-to-date capital, San José, sirens last week blared the death-knell of the very company which supplied them with power-big Electric Bond & Share Co.'s little Costa Rican affiliate which supplies San José and 32 nearby towns with electricity. For a year the Central American Republic's unicameral Congress has engaged in a tiff with Bond & Share. Bond & Share sought a new franchise for its affiliate, asked permission to charge higher rates. The Congress considered the proposed rates exorbitant. Month ago the Congress broke the resultant deadlock...
...fishermen had taught him the ways of sailing, knew him as a lad to trust with a boat. But no boy with the sea in his heart can scan the horizon long without yearning. Lyle Tara yearned to sail the 3,000-odd miles to Cocos Island, off the Costa Rican coast, where legend says pirates of the Spanish Main used to bury Inca gold. Into the pattern of his dream fitted the snug white 52-foot ketch Tira, which most of the time rode baresticked at her mooring because her owner, well-to-do Lew Foote, a busy Santa...
Married. Jandyra Vargas, younger daughter of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas; to Ruy da Costa Gama, 25, apprentice pilot of Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary, Panair do Brasil; in Rio de Janeiro...
...square miles and its 1,600,000 population are chiefly Indians & half-castes. It became an independent republic in 1839, on the dissolution into independent republics of the Central American Federation. This had comprised the States of (from north to south) Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation, is a one-crop country (coffee). In its capital, San Salvador, flourish 100,000 and the President, His Excellency General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez...
...plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form of a jaguar's head, found in Costa Rica, can be viewed only in the presence of Mr. Spear. He wears it on his watch chain...