Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continued explorations at Copan and Quirigua in Guatemala and Honduras show that the southern branch of the Maya civilization not only antedated the Yucatan development by more than 1,000 years, but was superior culturally and artistically...
...company, the American and Foreign Power Co. This new concern which has successfully floated an issue of 7% first preferred stock by public subscription, will acquire a number of public utility companies controlled by the Electric Bond and Share Co. in 39 communities of Cuba, Panama and Guatemala. The new company expects considerable prosperity from the present depreciated rates for foreign exchange, and also since public utilities in foreign countries are in general more profitable now than...
...Guatemala. At Quirigua, many remarkable monoliths elaborately carved, and huge statues of turtles and other animals were found by Profs. William Gates and J. J. Waterman, American experts in charge of archeological work for the Guatemalan Government. On some of the monuments the figures are all male; on others, all female. There is an entire absence of representation of weapons of war, indicating the advanced and peaceful state of culture. The United Fruit Company, which has big plantations throughout the region, is helping to protect the Guatemala ruins...
Forty-three countries from every part of the world are now represented in the enrollment of the college and of the graduate schools in Cambridge. Men have come to Harvard to study from Guatemala and Ceylon, from Czecho-Slovakia and Siam...
Reduced annual dues will be allowed to the Central American Republics - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, San Salvador - in order to keep them members of the League of Nations...