Word: guatemalan
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...Torrid Zone" isn't as bad a picture as one would expect it to be. This still leaves it stranded somewhere in the Guatemalan jungles, but even a white man can put up with an hour or so down there. Ann Sheridan, of course, cooperates with the mosquitoes and the yellow fever to make the place unpleasant. There were some rather crude members of the audience at the Metropolitan who whistled at certain sequences built upon her specialized sort of appeal, but it is hard to see why. While it is true that she has learned from Busby Berkeley...
Children of diplomats from 30 countries attended a Washington Christmas Party in their native costumes. Guest William O. Douglas Jr., son of the Supreme Court Justice, went in the dress of his native U. S., did his best to improve Pan American relations with Isabel Recinos, daughter of the Guatemalan Minister...
...imports of Guatemalan chicle (for chewing gum) rose from 1,372,907 lbs. to 2,322,690 lbs. so far this year...
...Indian avocados are grown in Florida, and some 13,000,000 pounds were imported last season from Cuba (certain spectacular avocados weigh two pounds apiece). But most avocados eaten in the U. S. come from California. Californians look down their noses at the West Indian article; California avocados are Guatemalan or Mexican or a cross beween the two. The Fuerte, a hybrid, called "the sturdy" because it shivered through the Big Freeze of 1913, makes up 75% of California avocados...
Eastern terminus of International Railways, best port in Guatemala and shipping point for most of United Fruit's Guatemalan bananas, is Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean. In 1927 a United Fruit subsidiary got a concession from the government allowing it to build new ports on the Caribbean and the Pacific. For International Railways a new port on the Gulf of Amatique, competing with Puerto Barrios, would be a serious matter, for in the past few years United Fruit has shipped more and more bananas overland from the Pacific Coast to Puerto Barrios on the International. Thus, bananas reach...