Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordered masters of vessels to lock up all cameras while passing through the Panama Canal; entertained as overnight guests Dr. Rafael A. Calderon Guardia, President-elect of Costa Rica, and his wife. Declared President-elect Guardia: the defense of the Canal is Costa Rica's vital interest, for which she is ready to take any measure...
...American Republics are in accord on the Canal's defense, said the President to the press. To official circles, a few hours after his return, he said that he had personally obtained direct permission from three countries (Colombia, Panama, probably Costa Rica) near the Canal for U. S. military use of their airports in wartime defense of the Canal. If new locks are not begun pronto, he warned (their construction will take six years), Congress will be to blame. Mumbling "economy," his leaders moped back to Capitol Hill to try again...
...least, runs the well-authenticated legend, well-known to Franklin Roosevelt, who slept and fished and yarned last week aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa in Cocos' Chatham Bay, with the radioed permission of Costa Rica's President León Cortés Castro. On his fourth visit* to the peaceful blue waters that lick Cocos' shores the President was still only after fish; still had only meagre fisherman's luck. Back in Panama the natives were swearing by the Roosevelt luck (he arrived on Feb. 18; No. 18 turned up in the lottery...
German seamen aboard ships laid up in Costa Rica received last month one moderately good break. At the request of the German Minister there, the Government ruled that Nazis might go ashore into the interior, settle down...