Word: guayaquil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulge of Brazil (ten hours by air from the German threat at Dakar); 2) the Panama Canal. With the consent of the interested Governments, bases were constructed in Brazil (Natal, Recife and six other big fields), in Panama (130 temporary bases, spotted around the isthmus), in Ecuador (Salinas, near Guayaquil, and the Galapagos Islands); in northern Peru at Talara, near Standard Oil [N.J.] fields...
With the $8 million, Ecuador plans to provide Quito with new pumps and water mains to every part of the city. Some of the money will be spent on the steaming port of Guayaquil (pop. 170,000), which shares most of the water troubles that plague the capital. Guayaquil will get a system of artesian wells to supplement the present source of supply, the stinking, putrid Guayas River. Eventual goal for capital and port: plenty of water to drink, a bath a day for everyone...
...named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
...Business was bad," Juan Burham told Guayaquil police, "until the North American soldiers came to Salinas." After that, sales doubled. At one time the integrated farm-to-market Burham system had produced around 900 smokes a day, most of them inhaled by U.S. troops in Ecuador. Then, about the time the gringo customers were ordered home, Orley Burham died. Rosa, whom he had married two years before his death, tried to carry...
...Guayaquil, Ecuador...