Word: lima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than almost any other, the business of making locomotives is either a feast or a famine. Lima Locomotive Co., third largest in the U. S., feasted in 1937 when it made 101 locomotives at a profit of $1,019,983, first since 1930. Last year Lima got along on beans-it made ten locomotives and lost $687,035. This year Lima is dining a little less frugally-it got an order for twelve locomotives in February. And last week Lima had a new face at the head of its table. Vice President John E. Dixon became president in place...
...dictator, like a man with a bull by the tail, takes a chance every time he lets go. Last week Peru's Strong Man, bulky President General Oscar Raimundo Benavides, and some of his Ministers decided to leave Lima's Government Palace for a three-day holiday at Paracas Bay, 200 miles down the coast from Lima. Minister of Government and Interior General Antonio Rodríguez, left behind to keep a watchful eye on things at home, accompanied the President & party to the docks at Callao, port of Lima, and bade them Godspeed...
Minister Rodríguez scooted back to Lima, gathered a handful of followers, largely Government employes from his own ministry, and marched into the Government Palace. He summoned the Army officer in command of the palace machine-gun squad. "I am assuming the Executive post since General Benavides is leaving Peru," announced the Minister. "Hand over your command." The officer pretended to accept the order. Once outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns...
...followers opened fire and before the Army forces could machine gun them into submission three policemen, a pedestrian and four rebels were killed, nearly a dozen wounded. Strong Man Benavides and his Ministers called off their holiday, rushed back to Lima in time to supervise the disposition of the bodies...
Ralph H. Cutler, Jr. '40, chairman said that the student campaigners have secured the support of Father O'Hara, president of Notre-Dama University and member of the American delegation at the recent Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru...