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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...
...Lima, Peru...
...thousand feet up in the Andes* lives a race of men with enormous energy and cast-iron hearts. Dr. Carlos Monge of Lima, Peru last week described that race, the highest in the world, to scientists at the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary meeting (see p. 63). For his research he received an honorary degree. The thin Andes air kills weaklings. So the 12,000,000 Andes strong-hearts are the product of centuries of painful adaptation to scarcity of oxygen. In years of laboratory study. Dr. Monge found...
...Peru announced that German diplomatic pouches would no longer be exempt from customs examination, since Nazi officials had used them "for purposes other than the transport of official correspondence." One of the other purposes had been to send a radio transmitter to the German Legation in Lima. When Peruvian customs officials refused to pass the transmitter unopened it was sent back to Argentina. There it was seized, with other German diplomatic correspondence, by the eager sleuthhounds of the Argentine "Comité Dies." Last week, after much diplomatic fussing, the Germans got the transmitter and most of their documents back...