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...people celebrate Martes de carnes-tolendas (Mardi Gras) with fitting abandon. Ahead were 40 days of fasting & prayer, but for Fat Tuesday the Rio Guayas had yielded many fish to be eaten; there were many casks full of vino tinto to be drunk; on almost every corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people be gay. Was not that Liberal leader and troublemaker, Commandante Ildefonso Mendoza, under arrest? Above...
...diplomat or consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government had placed on such metropolitan centres as Hongkong, Nanking and Shanghai, on Havana and Saigon, on Bombay and Madras...
...From Guayaquil, Ecuador, last week went triumphant despatches that U. S. Public Health men had eradicated bubonic plague from the community. The men were Drs. John D. Long and Clifford Rush Eskey. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, has been one of man's most terrific scourges. In the 14th Century it killed 13,000,000 people in China, 24,000,000 in the rest of the East, 25,000,000 (onefourth of the population) in Europe. Its horror is recorded in Daniel DeFoe's Journal of the Plague Year, 1665, when 70,000 died in London...
From Panama it will be easy to extend airmail and passenger service into South America. Pan-American Airways, Inc., for whom Col. Lindbergh flew, announced that it intends soon to extend its routes to Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta, Valparaiso and across the Andes to Buenos Aires. Airmail flown thus from Manhattan to Buenos Aires can arrive in five days. By ship down the Atlantic, Manhattan-Buenos Aires mail now takes 14 to 17 days...
Three thousand miles is the ship or train distance between San Diego, Calif., and Guayaquil, Ecuador (where President-Elect Hoover was last week, see p. 10), between Manhattan and Queenstown, Ireland, between Washington and San Francisco. Trains or ships join those traveled places in a few days. Getting to the trackless Poles takes months...