Word: ecuador
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...Cuenca, provincial city in the highlands of Ecuador, the shirtless grew vexed last week at the high price and scarcity of salt. A mob, knowing a certain government warehouse to be well salted, attacked it, were repulsed by the police. Four rioters were killed...
Foiled, mob-leaders plotted an attack next day on a train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
...Spaniards first met this valuable esculent near Quito onetime Peruvian possession, now capital of Ecuador. In 1553, a Seville chronicle mentions it under the name of "battata" or "papa." Later the potato spread to Italy and Belgium, where it did not "take." In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh planted it on his estate near Cork, Ireland, where is multiplied...
...Herbert S. Dickey of the Royal Geographic Society and his bride turned up last fortnight at Para, Brazil, after a busy honeymoon spent in crossing the Andes from Guayaquil, Ecuador; making cinema records of the art of curing human skulls among the savage, head-hunting Teveros...
Civilians Up! The military triumvirate which has administered Ecuador since last July, announced last week that the government has been returned to civilian hands. Meagre cables carried no details...