Word: quito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to the usually reliable New York Times, while Henry Ford was denouncing labor unions in Georgia, the Chauffeurs' Union of Quito, Ecuador, elected him their president...
Tropical Diseases: Quito, Dr. Sergio Lasso Meneses; Lima, Drs. Edmundo Escomel, Carlos Enrique Paz Soldan; Bogota, Dr. Daniel Brigard; Caracas, Dr. R. Gonzalez Rincones; Rio de. Janeiro, Dr. Carlos Chagas; Mexico City, Dr. Gaston Melo; San Jose (Costa Rica), Dr. Solon Nunez; Havana, Dr. W. Hoffmann...
...mountains between Guayaquil and Quito, where rain had been pouring for a fortnight, there were heavy landslides. Telegraph lines were broken, train service suspended. Prices in Guayaquil skyrocketed. President Baquerizo Moreno's granddaughter applied the raw flesh of a Guayaquil beef to her blackened...
Swedish matches lit the fires of revolt which ran Isidro Ayora out of the Presidential Palace at Quito fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 31). First as Provisional President, since 1929 as Constitutional President, he had been Ecuador's chief executive for the past five years. Ironically, the same matches which burned him last week helped secure his position two years ago. At that time he got a loan from Swedish Match Co. (Kreuger & Toll) in return for granting the firm a national monopoly. Not only did President Ayora grant a monopoly, but he agreed to pay out of the Ecuadorean...
...World Wide Christian Couriers, an evangelical group (Paul Rader of Chicago's Gospel Tabernacle, president), seem to have stolen a march on other foreign missionaries. Through Clarence W. Jones of Oklahoma City, missionary scouting in Ecuador, they gained a 25-year permit for a powerful station HCJB at Quito, Ecuador's capital. Programs will be evangelical and educational. A concession to the Ecuadorian Government: four hours a week for agricultural data, weather reports, political news...