Word: guardia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minute Less . . ." Arana's closest friends had been the officers of Fort Guardia de Honor, on the southeast edge of the city. When they got the news of the shooting, Colonel Jorge Barrios opened a case of Old Parr Scotch and called his officers into conference. Convinced that Arana had been murdered by pro-Arevalo killers, they determined to take over the government. The question was, who would form the junta...
...T.W.A. plane at La Guardia Field last week stepped a bald, strong-jawed man carrying two tiny wooden boxes. Inside the boxes, carefully packed between a layer of mud and some wet weeds, were 200 tiny (¼-in. diameter) snails (Bullinus truncatus). The snails were heavily infested with larvae of the fluke Schistosoma haematobium, which burrows under the skin and travels through the bloodstream to nest in and around the bladder. The infestation causes Bilharziasis (a form of schistosomiasis), resulting in passage of blood in the urine. Half of Egypt's 19,000,000 people suffer from it; throughout...
...surprising reception-and some good news-awaited The Lip at La Guardia Airport. Fred Boysen had been discharged from the hospital without even a bruise to back up his story. The press, scampering to the defense of Lippy, whom it ordinarily loves to ride, had found that Boysen had a police record as a street brawler. His first lawyer had withdrawn from the case. Morris Golding, the spectator who had helped to take Boysen to the hospital and called the lawyer, had revised his opinion: "I should have minded my own business. Boysen obviously wasn't hurt, but Durocher...
...York City's La Guardia field and neighboring airports one night last week rolled 59 trailer trucks hauling the largest single consignment of air freight in the history of commercial aviation. It took the entire cargo facilities of American Airlines and six other lines to carry the 112 tons. The shipment consisted of razor blades-25 million of them. They were flown to 381 U.S. cities, to appear simultaneously on 150,000 retail counters...
...days later, Olympia was loaded onto a plane at La Guardia Airport and flown to Louisville. With the big race only twelve days away, Kentuckians were still waiting to be shown that Olympia could carry his dizzy speed over the mile and a quarter Derby route. He also had to prove that he was a better horse than Old Rock-port-and a couple of Kentucky sleepers, Johns Joy and Ky. Colonel...