Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Central America's leading internationalist. To his home in Santa Ana, El Salvador, he invited the heads of the five Central American countries to discuss reunion now. Only two came. Nicaragua's Somoza lay ill in Boston, Honduras' Carias could not find time, and Costa Rica's Picado was on a diplomatic vacation...
...Governments invited Costa Rica to join them in doing away with passports for travel between their countries, using a Central American travel card instead. Costa Rica accepted, and Julio Acosta, Minister of Foreign Relations, signed with the Salvadoreans and started for Guatemala City. On his way he read Arevalo's speech, decided that "half-baked" had been aimed at his country. He returned to Costa Rica, leaving the cause of Central American union about where it was. It was the sort of thing that always seemed to keep the five states from getting together...
Fruitful Project. In Costa Rica, Pan American Highway engineers, quartered on a pineapple plantation, ordered food from home, got a carload of canned pineapple...
...operating company, has been loaded with an administration of political lame ducks. Production has fallen, losses have skyrocketed. Mexico, which once exported 50% of its oil, now has barely enough for its own increased consumption. And it is in grave danger of running out of oil if Poza Rica, the one rich field, should go dry-as overworked fields sometimes...
...opening new producing regions, the inter-American highway is revolutionizing Central American economy. In Costa Rica, peons are burning down primeval forest to make way for cornfields. In Nicaragua, rich cattle, sugar and tobacco regions are being brought next door to consumers. And there are political possibilities: once the six now-isolated Central American republics are joined by the new highway, the century-old dream of a Central American Federation might come true...