Word: quetzal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awarded by the Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. New York Republican Steven Derounian offered a bill in the House to give "this doctor and humanitarian" a special Congressional Medal. Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas bestowed on Salk the country's highest honor, the Order., of the Quetzal. Norwegian schoolchildren collected money for a painting to give him, and three Hollywood movie companies said they wanted to film his life story. Back to the Lab. In their own way, politicos paid tribute to Dr. Salk by ringing statements concerning fair and even distribution of the vaccine...
...made out a voucher to the director of the government-run Agrarian Bank, who in turn filled out two checks for 500.000 quetzales each to Alfonso Martínez (boss of the agrarian-reform program) and Colonel Carlos Enrique Díaz (head of the armed forces). They gave the checks back to Sierra Franco, who cashed them for blue 20-quetzal bills and grey 100-quetzal bills. He took the million, stuffed in a big canvas bag, back to Arbenz' office and turned it over to the President, Mart...
...Coffee-rich Guatemala's quetzal is exactly at par with the U.S. dollar...
...overriding issue for the U.S. in Guatemala is the growth of Communist influence within the government. Said a Washington spokesman last week: "If the Guatemalans paid the United Fruit Co.'s full $16 million claim tomorrow and decorated every last United Fruit official with the Order of the Quetzal, we wouldn't be one whit less concerned about the danger of Communism in Guatemala...