Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Central American politicos, from the days of William Walker to those of dollar diplomacy, had hatched new revolutions in the musty Vieux Carré. Nowadays Guatemala's ex-Dictator Jorge Ubico, moping in his St. Charles Avenue garden, is about the only political exile left, but Latin America still looks on convenient New Orleans as its cultural and economic beachhead...
When the U-boats of World War II hit hard at East Coast shipping, many Latin American traders had to turn to New Orleans. Spruce, young (34) deLesseps Story (Chep) Morrison, the city's mayor-elect, wants to keep them coming...
...Airwise, the city has bid for leadership by building Moisant International Airport, the only major U.S. municipal field to be completed during the war. New Orleans still sends only two flights south each day to rival Miami's 34, but when four-engined stratospheric giants take over the Latin American shuttle, Moisant's 7,000-ft. runway will be an insignificant hour and 50 minutes farther from Rio and Buenos Aires than Miami...
Flying down to Rio, and everywhere in Latin America, was faster and more comfortable than ever. Mexico, prime goal of U.S. wartime travelers, was busier than ever-and higher priced than ever, like every place else. Bermuda was again only three hours from Manhattan by plane (round trip fare $126), or 72 hours by Furness Withey's 100-passenger ships (roundtrip fare: $80-200). The Monarch of Bermuda would not be sailing again till...
Died. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, 80, prototype of Kipling's cool, Latin-quoting Stalky, and last of the immortal trio* of Stalky & Co., in Torquay, Devonshire. As a full-grown soldier he was still the Kipling hero, in World War I bluffed the Turks out of the Baku oilfields with a handful...