Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scottish-born Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with reply), president of Princeton Theological Seminary, is usually a mild man. But last week his dander was up. A longtime missionary in Mexico, Peru and Uruguay, he well knew that the republics south of the Rio Grande still admit Protestant missionaries, educators and doctors, despite some wartime difficulties. Yet last month the U.S. Catholic hierarchy declared that these missions are "a disturbing factor in our international relations" and are "offensive to the dignity of our Southern brothers, their culture and their religion." Last fortnight the Catholic Digest made further charges (TIME...
...President's desk sped telegrams of congratulation and good wishes: from the Presidents of Peru and Nicaragua, from the Prime Minister of Canada, from plain citizens everywhere. Indirectly came news that Russia's Joseph Stalin, long bitter at United Nations delay in opening a second front, now spoke glowingly of the African offensive and the "Anglo-Soviet-American coalition...
...Federal Communications Commission radio monitors spotted the secret station. Its complicated coded and transposed messages were intercepted and turned over to the U.S. experts, who broke the code. From then on, officials in Washington followed carefully the work of Nazi spies in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and even...
...Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters have slipped into the jungles to gather rubber for better pay. In Andean-wrinkled Chile and Peru where railroads are few, highway routes are all-important, few trucks have gasoline to run and even they are being laid up as tires wear...
...Wartime. In last summer's war between Peru and Ecuador (TIME, Sept. 1, 1941), the only medical facilities near the jungle battlefields were two hospitals in northern Peru belonging to a Standard subsidiary. Company ambulances, planes and trucks hauled casualties of both armies to its hospitals, which set up extra cots in halls and patios. "We spent days removing pieces of shrapnel and bullets from the wounded," wrote Dr. Lewis Eraser last week in The Medical Bulletin...