Word: guatemala
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...late 1920s Brazil began to store up coffee and future trouble for itself in the form of two revolutions. Though other coffee lands like Colombia, Guatemala, etc. can produce some 40% of the world's demand, Brazil's crop alone was larger than total world consumption in 1929. The following year 16,500,000 bags were bought up and pledged under a $97,000,000 foreign loan with the idea of liquidating both the loan and the coffee over a period of ten years. In 1931 Brazil was again knocked to her knees with another bumper crop. Finance...
...purpose of this invasion of Africa was to find out if a tropical disease discovered in Guatemala five years ago was the same as one believed to be prevalent among the natives of the Katanga district. Their summer's work convinced the members of the expedition that the two are identical, and a great deal of valuable information was obtained...
...marriage did to five sisters; a post-War novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel by a Negress. Non-Fiction...
Back from the jungles of Guatemala Joan Lowell (The Cradle of the Deep) brought a 6-year-old half-Indian boy named Marino Valdez. She averred that hostile Indians had captured Marino Valdez, cut off his right hand because he was an "infidel'' (or because they wanted to prevent his ever bearing arms), abandoned him to the jungle, where she found him while shooting films. She said she planned to adopt the waif legally in Manhattan, train him for the diplomatic service...
...year-old Bessarabian immigrant. From banana jobbing in New Orleans he got a stake to start importing bananas. When he could not get all the bananas he wanted in Central America he got some revolutionists busy. He clashed with big United Fruit in Guatemala and Honduras and when United Fruit wanted to buy out his Cuyamel Fruit Co. in 1930 he sold-on a share-for-share basis. United Fruit stock was then selling for $105 a share and Sam Zemurray's stake in the Caribbean was worth...