Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London the weekday rate will be $21 for three minutes, on Sunday as low as $15. A similar reduction will apply on calls from Manhattan to Paris, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Lima, Peru. The present $33 charge to Berlin and Santiago, Chile, will be cut to $24 on weekdays, $18 on Sundays. Where it now costs $21 to call Panama City or Guatemala, the reduced rates will be $12 and $9. To London, Paris and Berlin, U. S. telephone subscribers may call at night for the same price as the Sunday charge...
...John McKendree Springer, for 35 years a missionary in Africa, was consecrated a missionary bishop, sent back to his field in the Congo. Another outlander simultaneously consecrated was Rev. Roberto Elphick, elected bishop some months ago by the Methodists of Chile and Peru...
...Buenos Aires representatives of the U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, sitting as the executive committee of the Chaco Peace Conference, had just announced that on the following day at 6 p. m. they would recognize the Colonel's 25-day-old Government. When they read its proclamation they abruptly changed their minds. Like Hitler and like Stalin, dictatorial Franco spoke of his gang as constituting "The Revolution" and announced that it is the State. In 1936 this has become the usual crude variant of Louis XIV's elegant platitude, L'etat...
Colonel Franco sent them away with pat-on-the-back assurances that "Paraguay is a natural democracy." Duly reassured, the Franco regime was thereupon recognized by the U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay...
...into the cosmic quest. He had an impatient desire to collect a mass of far-flung recordings with the greatest possible speed. Eight cooperating expeditions were to measure the rays in Greenland, Denmark, India, Ceylon, Java, Tibet, South Africa, Eritrea, Spitsbergen, Switzerland. One man was to make records from Peru around the Cape of Good Hope to the U. S. Two Compton men were killed trying to scale Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Dr. Compton himself, with his wife and elder son, set out on a cosmic search that took him to a volcano brim in Hawaii, Mt. Cook...