Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four days last week the eleventh U.S. Provincial Eucharistic Congress celebrated the centenary of the Roman Catholic diocese of Buffalo. Among the high ranking prelates from six countries were Peru's Cardinal Guevara and Brazil's Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta-the first South American Cardinals ever to attend a U.S. Congress. New York's Cardinal Spellman told the Congress: "It is folly for us to deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face...
After the war, Canada went all-out to cultivate South America. Most-favored-nation trade agreements with Latin American countries were extended to a total of 16. By May of this year, there were Canadian Trade & Commerce Department offices in Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Peru. Canadian investments south of the Rio Grande, principally in mining, oil and public utilities, now total some $150 million.† Canadian banks and insurance companies are pushing business with the Latinos...
...Peru's rainless, guano (dung)covered Chincha Islands, Director Carlos Llosa Belaunde of the semi-official Compañia Administradora del Guano fondly examined a guano sample. His 20 million birds were performing magnificently, producing more & more fertilizer for Peru's irrigated fields. Recently Señor Llosa announced that this year the national guano harvest would be 170,000 tons, up from the 1942 low of 79,000 tons. Chief reasons: a scientific pampering of the guano birds, and the fact that the Peruvian (Humboldt) Current, which sometimes falters, was flowing strong and cold from the Antarctic...
...Chincha Islands are already playing host to almost all the birds they can hold. What the guano birds need now, says Señor Llosa, is more staging areas. The climate of southern Peru is favorable; the sea is full of fish. But there are virtually no islands there, and when the birds try to nest on the mainland, foxes eat their eggs. So Señor Llosa is building ten-foot walls across the peninsulas, making artificial islands for the birds to use as bases. He even dreams of parking the birds some day far at sea on anchored...
Ecuador, and Peru. Throughout the Spanish world plain people felt that they had lost one who had given them not joy, but a bitter and glorious excitement, a pageant of death and of courage, death's enemy...