Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just after 7 in the evening. Francisco ("Panchito") Grana Garland, 45, boss of Lima's ultraconservative La Prensa, manager of a big pharmaceutical business, had had a long day at the office. "Good night, sonny," he said to the porter, and headed toward his car. A moment later six shots crackled in the street. The porter got out in time to see a sedan turn the corner. Grana lay mortally wounded at the wheel...
...murder of Editor Grana, scion of one of Lima's 60 reigning families and bitter editorial enemy of the dominant Apra Party, touched off the biggest political crisis since the Apristas came to power two years...
...long ago James Henry Gundy,* head of the Montreal investment banking house of Wood, Gundy Co., Ltd. wanted to start an airline. Keys suggested a Lima-to-Montreal route, got a charter from the Peruvian Government, and raised $4,000,000 from Americans, Canadians, and Peruvians. P.I.A.'s first route, which it hopes to be operating before March: Lima to Montreal via Panama City, Havana, and New York. This may prove potent competition for Panagra. And if P.I.A. ever makes the obvious extension to Buenos Aires, it will have a New York-to-Buenos Aires route 700 miles shorter...
...north of Lima, Peru's TVA, the Santa Valley Corp., pressed on with South America's most exciting hydroelectric development. Even with abnormally high wages (78? a day), it was still difficult to keep the 1,300 Indian laborers steadily on the job. Some part of each year, in spite of the deadly verruga flies and the bone-dry soil of the western Andean slopes, they had to go back to tend their meager mountain farms...
...celebration would end in the Procesión de los Blancos, when the upper classes would be allowed a brief inning. Till then, business would be slow in Lima. Socialists and Communists, despite their dim. view of all religion, would not molest the procession. But if they tried, the broad-backed brotherhood of litter-carriers would strip off their purple coats and attend to them...