Word: ecuador
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...Alaska-born Anabel Simpson worked four years in the Territory, most recently for the Army engineers who built our air base at Anchorage. . . . Chile-born Paz Davila turned 21 just this week, but she has traveled through Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and every Central American country except Costa Rica, visited Europe and Africa, lived four years in diplomatic Washington, and knows scores of Latin American newsmakers...
...wealthy, hell-to-breakfast sons of the late strong man President Leonidas Plaza of Ecuador were whooping it up last week. Reared to fast horses and bullfighting, habituated to settling disputes with gunpowder, the Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return...
...protect castaways in shark-infested seas, the Navy announced a shark-repellent substance. A secret concoction which sharks abhor, it was developed by the Office of Scientific Research & Development in cooperation with Marine Studies, Inc., was tested in waters off Florida and Ecuador...
Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar. After a railway-car breakdown in Ecuador the Vice President had transferred to the railgoing seesaw, shed his coat, hoisted his sleeves, doggedly pumped and sweated for three miles...
...Unvisited. After ten days in Chile, Mr. Wallace intends to spend some time in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, return to the U.S. toward the end of April. Not on his itinerary: Brazil (which is wholeheartedly in the war on the Allies' side) and Argentina (whose government, despite the example of other American nations, remains icily neutral...