Word: ecuador
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...Brazil and Cuba; the Ministers Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Guatemala, Colombia, Panama, Jugoslavia, Costa Rica, Holland, Bolivia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Irish Free State, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Austria, Latvia, Egypt, Poland and Bulgaria; the Charges d'Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies-all sat down to a grand international feast from the Dolly Madison service in the state dining room...
...turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from the needle...
...arrival in the U. S. of the Ecuadorian Minister to Chile brought about the disclosure of the unique governmental situation in Ecuador since the recent revolution (TIME, July 20). There is now no president of the country. But there is a cabinet of seven members, each of whom in turn acts as "chairman." The minister came to the U. S. to secure recognition for his government...
...Washington (24.1), Chicago (23.8), Denver (22.7), Los Angeles (22), Toronto (21). ¶ Cities with less than five telephones per 100 population include : Amsterdam, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Antwerp, Glasgow, Liverpool, Prague, Manchester, Marseilles, Birmingham, Tokyo, Milan, Shanghai, Naples. ¶ The world's prize nonuser of telephones is Ecuador. She has only 392 and only 125 miles of telephone wire...
...serene in Ecuador. Following the recent, peaceful, bloodless revolution (TIME, July 20), impenetrable calm settled upon the country. A new Government was formed...