Word: fishmeal
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...divided between business negotiations and Latin hospitality, representatives of both nations gathered at Lima's graceful Torre Tagle Palace to sign a two-year trade agreement. The precise products and terms are so far uncertain; the Soviet Union, through European middlemen, is already purchasing sizable quantities of Peruvian fishmeal. But the meaning of the event was clear. Peru's Foreign Minister, Eduardo Mercado Jarrín, one of a spangle of generals who seized power last October, called the occasion "the end of an era in which our trade was channeled in only one direction...
Luck played a part in the comeback. Vast shoals of anchovies offshore have turned Peru's once-struggling fishing industry into one that will earn upwards of $180 million in exports, mainly of fishmeal, this year. Also, the worldwide copper shortage, made more acute by growing U.S. demands for the Viet Nam war, should send Peru's mineral exports well beyond last year's record $309 million...
Promising a "new Peru," Pérez Godoy pushed through a 24% increase in the budget and decreed new taxes to pay for it, including a $1-a-ton levy on anchovies that provoked a strike and threatened to close down the thriving fishmeal industry. And when he refused to approve the construction of a new hospital for Vargas Prada's air force and six new ships for Torres Matos' national steamship line, the other junta members turned...
...conditioning would also be a blessing for moths. Miss Griswold and a young associate named Mary Frances Crowell rigged a number of jars in which five different humidities, ranging from 20% to 93%, were maintained by means of saturated salts. In these containers moth larvae were hatched, fed on fishmeal. The Misses Griswold & Crowell found that more larvae reached maturity at 75% humidity than at any other...