Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other day TIME-LIFE International, publishers of our overseas editions, received a subscription order from a man who gave his address as Andagoya, Colombia. No such place appeared in the traffic manager's atlases, so he asked the airline that flies TIME to Latin America where Andagoya was. The airline couldn't focate it, but promised to investigate. This is the investigator's report...
Then a special air-cargo rate that would make this operation economically possible was approved by the U.S. Government and, in May of 1941, our Air Express edition (now called Latin American) began. It was printed on fast offset presses in Jersey City, N.J. and carried by Pan American Airways planes to 20 countries in South and Central America, thereby cutting delivery time by three weeks. We also worked out a technique of photographing TIME'S editorial copy on film, which could be rushed by air to Latin American printing plants...
Harry Truman's "bold new program" seemed tailor-made for Latin America. All 20 Latin American republics are "underdeveloped." They have been crying for economic help ever since war's end, when the flow of U.S. dollars southward slowed to a trickle. Would the "bold new program" solve their problem...
Thorp's committee has found that providing technical assistance to underdeveloped nations is no problem. Since 1938, the U.S. has spent close to $100 million doing just that for Latin America. This year, under the sponsorship of the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, some 460 experts are on loan to Latin American governments...
Frederick H. Gwynne '51 and Robert G. Myhrum ocC have the principle roles in the Pudding's 1949 show, a musical comedy concerned with the political intrigue of a mythical Latin-American state, Anyguay...