Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor improvements (flat disc record, greater fidelity) on Thomas Edison's invention financed archeological jaunts to Easter Island, Guatemala, a sounding of the Puerto Rico Deep in a $1,500,000 yacht, and a $1,000,000 University of Pennsylvania medical research foundation...
...foreign countries, China, with 78 students enrolled, has by far the largest total; the Dominion of Canada with 56 is second; tiny Guatemala, with 12, completes the big three of the foreign bloc...
...Central America, where a U.S. ambassadorial sneeze may start a revolt at any time, democracy and dictatorship contested across national borders. Costa Rica is a first-class democracy; El Salvador and Guatemala are struggling with the problem of embryo democracy. Nicaragua and Honduras are still outright dictatorships...
After 18 bullfightless years, Guatemalans were discovering that the revival of the ancient Spanish sport was not to be achieved in a day or in weeks. Guatemala's torrential rains gave the bulls rheumatism. The long waits for a clear afternoon made the toreros neurotic. Their performance in the ring was tentative, and Guatemalans complained...
...trips to Havana and Rio, hard-dancing Leon Henderson mastered the rumba and the samba. This week the ex-OPA boss was off to Guatemala where he was expected to pick up the native son. With other U.S. experts, he would refurbish Guatemalan economy, try to rein in the country's galloping inflation...