Word: ecuador
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...Among them: the Chaco, which is settled really only in so far as Bolivia and Paraguay have temporarily exhausted their economic resources; an ephemeral revolution in Ecuador, where a regiment last week revolted, set up their artillery on a hill and put a few shells into the Presidential Palace...
...gives an "autobiographical minimum" that is so interesting readers are likely to regret he did not add more to it. Son of the pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Manhattan, he was inspired to study mining engineering by Richard Harding Davis' Soldiers of Fortune. Young Baragwanath sailed for Ecuador as soon as he got out of college, hoping to emulate Davis' hero who "figures heroically in South American revolutions, had amorous encounters with spitfire senoritas and was generally in vincible." He waxed his mustache, got into the Ecuadorian cavalry, was all set for adventure when he came down...
...still sell military planes to foreign powers, but few first-class customers will take two-year-old models. U.S. military plane exports in the last six months: Argentina, $285,000; China, $948,012; Mexico, $299,904; Russia; $117,676; Brazil, $9,600; Holland $1,162,600; Japan, $63,000; Ecuador, $125,550; Honduras...
...Blue Room of the White House in Washington went last week delegates from Ecuador and Peru to try to settle their famed century-old boundary dispute. In an address of welcome President Roosevelt said: "These two great Republics . . . have never faltered in their determination to settle this boundary question by pacific means. . . . I am confident that your deliberations here will furnish further encouragement . . . for the principle of the pacific settlement of disputes among nations." Thereupon the two delegations, presided over by Ecuador's Dr. Homero Viteri Lafronte and by Peru's Dr. Francisco Tudela y Varela, retired...
Though the disputed 40,000 square miles is still mainly jungle, it could be cultivated, could produce spices, salt, rubber, cotton if Ecuador and Peru can ever decide which country owns which square miles...