Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six months of peaceful revolution, Peru had a touch of violence last week. When it was over, the "New Deal" for which Peru voted last June was more strongly entrenched than ever...
...scrimmage pitted the well-marshaled leftists of Apra (the People's Party, and Peru's largest) against Communists, fascists and students who tried to demonstrate in Lima's Plaza Universitaria against the Government's new press law. Outnumbering the hardy demonstrators by 20,000 to 200, the Apristas waved white handkerchiefs, drowned out the anti-Government orators by clapping in rhythmic unison (two short, one long). Then in perfectly formed ranks their columns closed in. They seized the opposition's banners, fought with fists and sticks. Guns popped. After the police finally cleared the Plaza...
...Last month a converted British Lancaster bomber made a survey flight from London to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. The British plan a regular commercial service on that route...
Escorted by the Navy, the Thorshammer hunted for the U.S. off Peru and in the Antarctic for three seasons, brought back a total of 263,000 barrels of oil worth nearly...
...headed for the island last week with a shovel and an electronics device like a mine detector, used in locating metals. Five times they dug down, found buried hulks. Their sixth excavation hit the jackpot: a small, encrusted copper box. It was full of tarnished old coins minted in Peru, Mexico, Portugal, France and Spain...