Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filariasis, another parasite disease, affecting as much as 98% of the population in the highland slopes of Guatemala. The filariae, which are carried by coffee flies, sometimes produce bright green nodules as large as walnuts on the scalp; these fibrous nodes must be dug out by surgery. Another type of filaria, mosquito-borne, is widely prevalent in the West Indies, causes elephantiasis, grotesque swelling of the arms, legs, buttocks, sexual organs. No effective ways have yet been found of treating this ailment...
...Presidents of Peru, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the Ministers of Mexico and Guatemala (in beautiful Spanish) the Vice President of the United States (in Spanish) and other American officials made proper remarks...
During his absence Mr. Hall will direct research at the Institute of the first stages of English which the Commission has found the most practical method as yet devised. He will also study English teaching in Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, and Costa Rica...
Died. Tony (Anthony Frederick) Sarg. 59, marionette maker, book illustrator; of peritonitis, caused by a ruptured appendix; in Manhattan. Born of a German father and British mother in Guatemala, he was educated in Germany, came to the U.S. in 1915. In pre-Disney days he designed popular marionette shows and picture books, pioneered in animated cartoons, but his most popular creations were his balloons for R. H. Macy's annual Manhattan Thanksgiving Parade...
Latin-Americans never disliked North Americans as a people, but did heartily abhor many of their policies, according to Dr. David Vila, professor of Ethnology at the University of Guatemala, newspaper man, and good-will ambassador sent by the Nelson Rockefeller Officer of Pan-American affairs...