Word: ecuadorian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worker in the steaming jungles of eastern Ecuador, Shell's withdrawal would mean the end of jobs well-paid by Ecuadorian standards. Roughly $1,500,000 in salaries have gone to native employees annually; the national budget amounts to only $20,000,000 a year. To the importer in Ecuador it would mean the loss of at least 10% of the country's already scarce dollar exchange. To Ecuador as a whole it would mean the end of a cherished dream...
...took a wife: 33-year-old Mary Louise Wellensiek of Pomona, Calif., whom he had met about a year ago at a presidential reception in Quito. Then he had a friendly chat with Harry Truman, came away impressed by the President's "grasp of modern and ancient Ecuadorian history." Finally last week, as his North American honeymoon ended, Trujillo announced that he had wangled two $4 million loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, to complete modernization of the water systems of Ecuador's capital and chief port...
...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
...Promptly, the anguished Ecuadorian Congress set swiftly about amending its Constitution to forbid the sale or transfer of any of its territory...
Harvard's intercollegiate tennis interests will be represented by Don S. Willner '47 and Ed L. Slater '47, when they participate in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship Matches at Elizabeth, New Jersey, tomorrow through Sunday. Francisco "Pancho" Segura, the bow-legged Ecuadorian with the mean two-handed forehand, is the defending champion. He is currently enrolled in Miami College...