Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Communication. ". . . Railway lines have been extended so that it will soon be possible to travel with practically no interruption from the northern border of the United States to the southern border of El Salvador, and in South America from Peru to Patagonia. . . . On the wall of my office hangs a map showing proposed highways connecting the principal points of our two Continents...
...Second School wants to force the U. S. to cease to "domineer"?in Nicaragua, for instance (See NICARAGUA). Another prominent Second Schooler is black President Louis Borno of Haiti who demands "mutual Pan-American respect of liberty, independence and territorial integrity." Another is President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru: "The two Americas, different in origin, will (must) be equal in their final destiny...
When a weak sister among the nations (as Peru), who has been obliged to pay 7% and more interest on over $50,000,000, borrowed from stronger sisters (as Peru has done), has opportunity to borrow $50,000,000 at only 6% interest, she hastens to make the new loan. This Peru did last week, by selling $50,000,000 of 6% bonds through J. & W. Seligman & Co., National City Company and their syndicate associates. The Peruvian government has determined to devote at least half of the new money to buying back bonds which carry the higher rates of interest...
...Lima, Peru, a large bull looked about him and saw Luis Romero, Peruvian cinemactor, demonstrating his horsemanship. With a loud bellow, the bull made for Luis Romero, flipped him off his horse, pawed and gored him until men arrived who rescued Luis Romero and tried to calm the bull...
...BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY- Thornton Wilder-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction...