Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That the screened wooden balconies that jut from the walls of old Peruvian palaces in Lima and elsewhere, are patterned after those of East Indian harems...
...Panagra passenger has plenty of time and likes to fly, he can -leave Cristobal via Pan Am's frequent Central American or Venezuelan flights. From an operating standpoint, Panagra's toughest problem is that it must base equipment, materials and personnel in South America (mainly Lima), has lost many a crackerjack pilot and mechanic because he would not stay away from the States...
...halls of the British Embassy the presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles...
This was the first word from an eyewitness of one of Peru's worst disasters. The avalanche had struck the town of Huarás, Peru, in an Andean valley 216 miles northwest of Lima, in the early morning while most of its 9,000 people were still in bed. Five hundred were known to be dead, 1,500 more were injured or missing...
Other medium-tank production lines were beginning to roll at Baldwin Locomotive, Pullman-Standard, Pressed Steel Car. Lima Locomotive will soon be in production. Some, perhaps all of these, will soon get speed-up orders. But the big push will come from Ford and General Motors. With plants already available and top priorities for tools, they are expected to be in production by summer...