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Soon, however, there will occur an industrial event which should add to Guatemalan and Salvadorean prosperity. This event will be the completion and opening early next month of an 80-mile stretch of railroad which will link the coast-to-coast Guatemalan railroad with the coast-to-the-interior Salvador railroad. With the completion of this connecting link, the coffee planters of San Salvador will be given a direct rail line to the Atlantic. Instead of shipping coffee to the Pacific, then down to the Panama Canal, then through the canal to the Atlantic, coffee men can ship entirely...
...Washington, D. C., Guatemalan Minister Adrian Recinos predicted, "The revolt will be put down within 48 hours," but it wasn't. Officials of the U S. State Department envisioned the bare possibility of intervention "to protect American lives (700) and property ($60,515,000) in Guatemala...
Siam abruptly substituted, as a monetary unit, the baht for the tical. Traders wrestled, last week, with the baht; tcher-vontzi (Russian); lei (Rumanian); zloty (Polish); escudo (Portuguese); quetzal (Guatemalan...
Died. Don Francisco Sanchez Latour, 51, Guatemalan Minister to the U. S. since 1922; in Washington, D. C.; of peritonitis...
Cliff City. Using cigarets and flattery, Oliver La Farge and Douglas Byers, ethnologists of Tulane University (New Orleans), gained the confidence of the Mayan Indians of Jacaltenango, a city of 2,000 inhabitants in the Guatemalan cliffs. They found a civilization strangely mixing mysticism and hard liquor, Christianity and paganism. They attended a native fiesta. They returned to New Orleans last week...