Word: ecuador
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...penny, madam, for the poor little European children who are so hungry!" Colombians, crimped by their ever-present transport problem, were forced to fly beef to their upland capital. At first they offered Hoover only coffee; later they considered relinquishing 8,000 tons of wheat promised by Canada. Ecuador, usually short on wheat, had a bumper rice crop; for 650,000 bags, which sell within Ecuador for $7 apiece wholesale, Hoover...
...last week, Ecuador's excitable Francisco ("Pancho") Segura was all but blown off the slippery court at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. Then Pancho, who feels very badly when sports writers call him "the best Grade B player in tennis," steadied down. With his two-handed drive, he whipped ferociously at every ball he could lay his racket on, cheered himself after good shots with a "Bravo, Pancho." In the next three sets, he trounced onetime U.S. Singles Champion Don McNeill (still rusty from Navy duty), became the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles...
There were three noteworthy omissions from the Navy's list: in the Pacific, the Galapagos Islands, which have been the subject of touchy negotiations with Ecuador; in the Atlantic, Greenland and Iceland-about which the Russian bear might be touchy...
...their normal source of manufactured goods, taught them to trade among themselves. In shop windows along Havana's Calle San Rafael appeared Mexican silver, Argentine pocketbooks, Chilean wines. Today, Argentina's chief supplier is no longer Britain but Brazil. Three Chilean companies now export more bananas from Ecuador to Chile than United Fruit ships...
After London's meeting of the UNO Preparatory Commission decided to place UNO's capital in the U.S., the fight narrowed down to San Francisco v. the East. Said Antonio Parra Velasco of Ecuador: "San Francisco is a city of wine, and where there is wine there is civilization, culture and the spirit of enthusiasm which we need." The British preferred to argue this point on its merits. Professor C. K. Webster, the United Kingdom's alternate delegate, said he had found the wines of the Hudson Valley equal to those of California...