Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer the apparatus was dismantled and shipped to Quito, Ecuador, where space above the equator can be searched between the altitudes of 300 and 1,600 miles. This region, which cannot be photographed from Flagstaff, is considered especially favorable. If the earth has small satellites, they will probably be found cruising low over Quito...
...Ecuador...
GENE MADEIRA Guayaquil, Ecuador...
...denied a federal charter, believing that no good could come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever in Rumania, dengue fever in Guam, malaria in Nicaragua. In Manhattan a Rockefeller scientist named Dr. Wilbur Sawyer developed the world's first effective anti-yellow-fever vaccine...
Economic troubles aside, Ecuadorians can take pride in their nation's recent history. The country was long notorious for political inflammability, but last week Ponce became the third President in a row to be constitutionally inaugurated. And for a Conservative to be able to take office in Ecuador with only a 29% mandate was itself a milestone of political progress and maturity...