Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Banana Split. In tropical Costa Rica, the U.S. embassy staff got from Washington a Department of Commerce questionnaire on local prospects for snowshoe sales...
...paved. Keeping a weather eye out for tropical rainstorms and stalled oxcarts, Central Americans now drive over most of Guatemala, El Salvador. Honduras and Nicaragua. But U.S. motorists won't get to Guatemala until the Mexicans finish the 420 miles from Oaxaca south to the border. In Costa Rica and in part of Panama, mountain and jungle still stand before giant bulldozers and power shovels. Last fortnight those giants got fresh energy when a new U.S. appropriation of $5 million became available...
...Costa Rica, inflation and corruption had rumpled traditional democracy. Conflict with the coffee barons over social legislation had fanned the opposition. Result: just enough revolutionary gunplay (one dead, two wounded) to keep the troops in trim. If the 50,000-odd Nicaraguans now living in Costa Rica had joined last week's revolt, it would not have been comic opera...
ALBERTO F. CANAS San Jose, Costa Rica...
...JIMENEZ ROSABAL San Jose, Costa Rica...