Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week little Costa Rica (pop. 710,000), the model democracy of tropical America, had a wild mass meeting. From all over the country skillfully organized followers of Presidential candidate León Cortés Castro streamed into the neat little capital of San José (pop. 76,000). All night they paraded and chanted. A float showed Communists hanged in effigy. Next day 25,000, including many screaming women, jammed into the Plaza Gonzalez Víquez to cheer their candidate. The hospital of San Juan de Dios had installed 50 extra beds. Soon most were occupied...
...last minute. In Mexico, for instance, you can carry all the money you want- provided it is all in silver and two-dollar bills. England, on the other hand, set a $50 limit. For most countries the best rule is to take as little cash as possible-but Costa Rica won't take a chance on letting you in unless you have $250. (Incidentally, it is almost impossible to estimate costs on trips like these. Some expense accounts run over $10,000-but Senior Editor Wertenbaker's three months with our Army in North Africa cost only...
...delegation of nine officials led by Rear Admiral Eleazar Videla. Out of the sky from Bolivia came nine planeloads of officials; from Brazil more airplanes; from Chile a delegation with Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernández; from Uruguay U.S. Ambassador William Dawson. From as far away as Costa Rica came others...
...Alaska-born Anabel Simpson worked four years in the Territory, most recently for the Army engineers who built our air base at Anchorage. . . . Chile-born Paz Davila turned 21 just this week, but she has traveled through Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and every Central American country except Costa Rica, visited Europe and Africa, lived four years in diplomatic Washington, and knows scores of Latin American newsmakers...
Last week came good news: United Fruit Co. announced that its first harvest of abaca on its Panama plantation showed a 50% greater yield per acre than has been obtained in the Far East. By the end of 1944 United will have 40,000 acres in Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras, from which it hopes to supply half U.S. normal requirements of around 40,000 tons a year. All of it will go to the Navy, which will share with the Merchant Marine...