Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sane" Socialist Government of Chile, recognized fortnight ago by Peru, was recognized last week by Argentina, Austria, China, Colombia. Costa Rica...
...stolid Germans stabbing each other Unter den Linden (TIME, July 11) seemed more newsworthy to most U. S. citizens than 400 armed rebels who over-powered the garrison of Trujillo, most important city of northern Peru, last week, murdered the Mayor, looted banks & mansions, committed wholesale arson. Zooming up from Lima, Peru's capital, seven bombing planes first dropped demands that the rebels surrender, then bombed them until they fled...
According to tough little President Luiz Sanchez Cerro of Peru whose body has been scarred by bullets of several would-be assassins (TIME, March 14), "The revolt was suppressed and several thousand loyal troops are carrying out their orders to surround and capture the insurgents." To finance the suppression $50,000 was appropriated by Peru's Congress...
...Congress his belief that cosmic rays are the "birth cries" of atoms newly born in the cold spaces between the stars. His paper was written before he heard of a report published last week in the Physical Review by his fellow Nobel Prizewinner, Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, now in Peru. Old is the quarrel between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who calls cosmic rays the "death wails" of matter on the stars. Dr. Millikan's friend Dr. Compton last week attacked his cosmic ray theories from a new quarter...
...March Dr. Compton, declining a chance to be president of Princeton University, set out with a 250-lb. machine to watch cosmic rays on Pacific mountaintops in Panama, Peru, New Zealand, Hawaii, Alaska. His preliminary report last week flatly contradicted Dr. Millikan's findings. Dr. Compton found "definite differences in the intensity of the cosmic rays at different latitudes, with a minimum at or near the Equator and increasing intensity toward the North and South Poles." These differences made him suspect that cosmic rays were streams of electrons, particles of electrically charged matter. More upsetting to Dr. Millikan...