Word: latins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LATIN AMERICA...
...Government has to grant export licenses), that if Argentina had the money, it could buy arms wherever it could find them. The Army itself could do nothing for him until Congress passes the long pigeonholed Inter-American Military Cooperation bill to authorize the U.S. to sell weapons to Latin America at bargain prices...
...fair-haired hemispheric boy of U.S. military planning. The U.S. had no intention of abandoning so old and strategically located a friend as Brazil. But planners in the Pentagon, thinking in terms of securing the U.S.'s southern flank, figured that Argentina is the most powerful nation in Latin America, and that Washington would do well to be on the good side of its army leaders...
...beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain black bean...
...common bean, it has none of the bitter aftertaste of the ordinary soybean. More important, it is chock full of proteins and contains all the known vitamins except C. One kilo is equal in protein to six dozen eggs or twelve pints of milk, items always scarce in the Latin American diet. It is also cheaper than the regular bean: 1.50 bolivars per kilo (45?) instead of 2.50 bolivars...