Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominican Republic, homes for workers-complete with kitchen and Stateside toilet-are as big an advance over older hovels as a Park Avenue apartment over a cold-water flat. Minimum wages, though still less than $1 a day, are half again as high as those paid on Guatemalan-owned plantations...
I.S.C.G.T.R.C. got started in 1943 when Earl May, a wealthy Iowa nurseryman, put up $75,000 for a five-year investigation of primitive corn. The following year a group of Guatemalan businessmen offered $150,000 to U.S. agricultural colleges for research work in Guatemala. Iowa State snapped up both offers...
...International Court of Justice received its first case, the British-Guatemalan dispute over British Honduras, to be heard in April at The Hague, when the court meets for the first time with these Assembly-elected judges: Charles De Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia...
...Britain's offer to let the International Court decide, Guatemala agreed "in principle." In Washington a Guatemalan explained what that meant: Guatemala was waiting to see whether it would have "at least a few friends on the court...
...Guatemalan oppositionists regretfully pinned the nickname chilacayote (a tough, little pumpkin) on durable President Juan José Arévalo when his car plunged over a precipice, fell apart while the President remained whole (TIME, Dec. 31). Last week oppositionists had a new angle. Said they: shortly after the wreck, the presidential staff rushed to the market, bought up a lot of chilacayotes for a presidential blood transfusion...