Word: peruvian
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...nothing left for Cohu to do but get out. Cohu was reportedly set to take a top job with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Likeliest bet to succeed him in T.W.A. was Lieut. General Harold Lee George (ret.), who ran the ATC during the war, and until recently bossed Peruvian International Airways...
...brown billowing desert,* broken here & there by tiny green valleys which poorly support half the country's population. The towering Andes effectively bar the transportation of foodstuffs from the fertile eastern region. Because of the chronic food shortage, the Ministry of Agriculture is the hottest seat in the Peruvian cabinet. In January, the Apristas gladly turned the post over to a chubby, genial landowner named Pedro Venture, later denounced him for failing to provide food for the people. Replied Venture: "I cannot offer you miracles...
More recently, Venture decided that maybe he might, after all, offer a miracle. He had read news dispatches about artificial rainmaking in the U.S., resolved to have a go at it. He equipped a Peruvian air force plane with a rubber water tank, personally flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...
...Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...
...Peruvian earthquakes followed by landslides and flash floods had claimed at least 43 lives by last night according to official dispatches which summarized casualties and damage since tremors first began yesterday...