Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scuttle, Scuttle, Scuttle, Up and up went Ethiopia's jig as a total of three central American countries resigned in disgust from the League (Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua) and Poland crashed through last week with a decree from Warsaw ending Polish Sanctions against Italy. Argentina seemed to be about the hardest nut for Britain to crack this week in the efforts of "Tony" Eden to crack all the Sanctions he was a leader in creating few months ago. Considering the British chiefly as customers for Argentine meat, supposing they meant all Mr. Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious...
...Central American countries except Mexico and El Salvador the road-building is largely due to U.S. paternalism and funds. Last November President Roosevelt gave $340,000 to Panama, Honduras and Guatemala for three bridges. U. S. donations to date: some $1,500,000. In Mexico and El Salvador, however, the roads have been almost entirely national work. This week's dedication is of the first section so completed in Mexico, the 770 miles from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico...
Beyond the Mexican capital, the Inter-American Highway is paved for 165 miles to Tehuacan, after which it gradually degenerates from gravel to dirt to cow tracks. At Chiapas, 185 miles from Guatemala, it halts completely in a maze of mountains. From the Guatemala border to Guatemala City there are 310 miles of road, of which 192 are impassable in wet weather. From Guatemala City there is a fine gravel road for some 200 miles to San Salvador. Beyond lie 87 miles of dry-weather road, which trickles into nothing but a track with occasional good patches as it cuts...
...similar reduction will apply on calls from Manhattan to Paris, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Lima, Peru. The present $33 charge to Berlin and Santiago, Chile, will be cut to $24 on weekdays, $18 on Sundays. Where it now costs $21 to call Panama City or Guatemala, the reduced rates will be $12 and $9. To London, Paris and Berlin, U. S. telephone subscribers may call at night for the same price as the Sunday charge...
...morning siesta by the noise of an airplane. Looking up, they spied an old trimotored Ford belonging to Compania Mexicana de Aviación, a subsidiary of Pan American Airways Chartered half an hour before by Hamburg-American Line, the plane was chugging its way from Mexico City to Guatemala. The courteous Mexican pilot had detoured from the regular course because he wished to show his country's most celebrated peaks to Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, who renounced the throne of a tiny Teutonic principality in 1918; his wife; Baron Siegmund von Stieber; seven other European trippers...