Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GARCIA CARRILLO, M.D. San José, Costa Rica...
...support of Catholics in Latin America, Caudillo Franco's letter came a little late, for the Vatican had pointedly withheld its blessing from the war (TIME, July 14). In Costa Rica, where the letter was first released to the public, the reaction of the press was one of sympathy, not with Franco, but with Spaniards forced to fight for Hitler. It looked as if Hitler had done himself no good in talking in the voice of Spain...
...This sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
...patrol bases, scan the Pacific to south, west and north. Another base will be set up 550 miles north of the Galapagos, on deserted Cocos Island, a favorite picnic stop of President Roosevelt's, where treasure-hunting for buried pirate gold is the only industry. (Costa Rica, the owner, now limits treasure-seeking parties to one at a time to avoid trouble.) Third base will be in the Gulf of Fonseca on Honduras' coast. The fourth will be far south, in one of the bays on the coast of friendly Ecuador...
Bonwit Teller's ace, Costa Rica-born designer Tom Lee, most respected of all Fifth Avenue window-display men, inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's forthcoming China Trade show, filled his windows with elegant Chinoi-series, including two life-size rag-doll horses. Swank Jeweler Marcus' veteran designer, W. B. Okie Jr., surrounded a terra cotta madonna with Easter lilies and pearls. Macy's Irving Eldredge, who has 41 windows to fill, paraded his dummies before backdrops of Manhattan landmarks and the Central Park Zoo. Designer Walter Smith, who works for both I. Miller...