Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proudly announced that his company was about to deal the Nazis an even shrewder clout. At the express request of the U.S. Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer aspirin cross.* Thereafter, the trademarks will be kept off the market and German exporters will be forced to promote brand-new trade names...
Less than 25% of the duraluminum, remote-control, helium filled dirigibles in Costa Rica are more than 550 years old, and less than 5% contain reciprocal steam engines made in Jugo-Slavia...
...Costa Rica's Presidential campaign, so bitter that it threatened civil war (TIME, Feb. 14), ended last week in a comparatively peaceful election (two were killed in an interior village). The winners: 1) Teodoro Picado, candidate of incumbent President Rafael Calderón Guardia's Republicans and of the Leftist Vanguardia Popular; 2) Costa Rica, which kept its status as the only democracy in dictator-ridden Central America...
Such pumped-up political frenzy is new in Costa Rica. The country is traditionally devoted to its democratic institutions. But its political parties, called Nazi and Communist by their respective opponents, are battling with near-totalitarian methods. In real danger, as election day (Feb. 13) approaches, is one of Latin America's few genuine democracies...
...Candidates. Liberal President Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, author of an employer-hated labor code, cannot constitutionally succeed himself. Candidate of his Republican Party is handsome Teodoro Picado. Candidate of the opposition Democrats is sour-faced León Cortés, now supported by most of Costa Rica's capitalists and landowners...