Word: ecuador
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...Other signers: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay. The agreements provide for U.S. arms aid as authorized under the Mutual Security Agency's $51.6 million program for Latin America...
...oldest continuing religious broadcast on the air. Now using the facilities of Manhattan's station WMGM, Calvary broadcasts twice each Sunday to a radio audience clustered in half a dozen nearby states. Its programs are also picked up on short wave and relayed by Station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. Last year Pastor Wimbish got 25,000 letters from his U.S. and foreign listeners, many of them from people who were converted by the program...
Shortly after World War I, he learned to fly, formed a company of his own, along with Harold Harris, now president of Northwest Airlines, and took crop-dusting teams as far as South America. He landed an airmail contract and passenger route to Peru and Ecuador in 1928, later sold it to Pan American-Grace Airways. In 1929 he helped form Delta and started flying passengers from Dallas to Jackson, Miss. and other Southern cities. He has been rapidly expanding his routes ever since. In the last five years. Delta's net has jumped from...
...cardinals, whose appointments bring the college to its authorized strength of 70, eleven are Italians. This raises the number of Italian cardinals to 27 (v. an Italian membership of 35 when Eugenic Pacelli became Pius XII in 1939). Three of the new cardinals are from Latin America (Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil), one from Canada. Other non-Italians: two Spaniards, one German, one Irishman (Archbishop D'Alton of Armagh in Northern Ireland) and two Frenchmen, giving France the highest number of cardinals (six) after Italy...
...President, El Tiempo's Santos ranged his country at the side of the U.S. His newspaper, printing not only first-rate world news but daily dispatches from correspondents in scores of Colombian cities, became a national newspaper, read from the Caribbean coast to the borders of Ecuador. El Tiempo was Liberal, independent and peace-minded. As such, it was and is a mortal threat to Colombia's little clique of ruling Conservative extremists, who hold power under a 33-month-old state of siege...