Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Lanus confirmed the rumor that before last year's Rio conference Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú tried to seduce Chile, Paraguay and Peru into a bloc to refuse cooperation with the U.S. Argentina waited this week to see whether Campo Minado would be suppressed when it was put on public sale...
Trypanosomiasis, or Chagas' disease, caused by a parasite spread by ticks, bed bugs, pig flies. Commonest in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, the trypanosomes invade the lymph nodes, thyroid, heart muscles, bone marrow, etc., cause fever, heart disease, sometimes insanity. There is no effective cure...
Cuzco's Doctor. Last year Axel Wenner-Gren sailed the Southern Cross to Peru, where he was received as a king. He financed an archeological expedition, gave Peru a million-acre public park, named for the donor, who felt warmly in his heart that Peru would not soon forget the name of Wenner-Gren. He was proud as a peacock when the University of Cuzco gave him an honorary doctorate, and the soft-footed servants who now minister to him and his wife in Mexico have been trained to call him "Doctor...
While he was in Peru, an invitation reached him to visit Mexico. In Mexico's capital, the country's big people flocked around him. He was given a gold key to the city. He fell in with John Ambrose Hastings, a onetime New York State Senator, who was also cutting a wide swath in Mexico. Personable Mr. Hastings, who somehow came to be known to Mexican bigwigs as a U.S. ex-Senator, was promoting a "hundred-million-dollar syndicate," purportedly backed by U.S. cash, to industrialize Mexico. And there was Axel Wenner-Gren with more money...
HARRY TSCHOPIK JR. Puno, Peru...