Word: peruvian
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Will Scale Peruvian Andes...
...just didn't know my own strength"), and he who got socked ("I just walked up behind her, and kissed her once, and said something about 'How about marrying me, Babe?' Really, I don't remember. . . ."). Then there was Eyewitness Jorge Benavides. a Peruvian delegate to U.N. Said he: "In Peru, we do what you do here in America. We bop him on the nose, like you say. Is that correct? Please do not involve me in any fights...
...head of the Army's Air Transport Command, Lieut. General Harold Lee George organized and ran an airline which was bigger (3,700 planes) than all the rest of the world's airlines combined. Last week he took a new job: board chairman and president of Peruvian International Airways, which has only five surplus planes, has not yet started operating...
...long ago James Henry Gundy,* head of the Montreal investment banking house of Wood, Gundy Co., Ltd. wanted to start an airline. Keys suggested a Lima-to-Montreal route, got a charter from the Peruvian Government, and raised $4,000,000 from Americans, Canadians, and Peruvians. P.I.A.'s first route, which it hopes to be operating before March: Lima to Montreal via Panama City, Havana, and New York. This may prove potent competition for Panagra. And if P.I.A. ever makes the obvious extension to Buenos Aires, it will have a New York-to-Buenos Aires route 700 miles shorter...
Haya's Apra (People's Party) was out in the open and had become the majority party in Peru. Haya himself, now an outspoken foe of Communism, was all steamed up about paying back defaulted Peruvian bonds to the U.S. (so that he could get new funds for his industrial, irrigation and Indian-aid projects). With the U.S. State Department he stood in high favor. And in capitals like Santiago and Caracas, government was now in the hands of leftists, some of whom (Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt, for one) had known Haya in exile...