Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Better known in both Central and North America was urbane, greying, 57-year-old Candidate Alfaro. Minister to the U. S. from 1922 to 1936-except for a two-year hitch in domestic politics-Career Man Alfaro has served on several Pan-American committees, has picked up decorations from Peru, Venezuela, France. As President pro tem after Rebel Arias' coup, he balanced the budget, turned the National Bank deficit into a credit. With the support of the Leftist Liberals he set out to crack the N. R. P., which has dominated Panama's politics since...
...eclipse (more than four minutes) traveled clear across South America, but it also was wasted. Two parties of U. S. scientists who traveled all the way to the shadow belt with their equipment got virtually no results because clouds veiled the blackened sun. Next chance for science : 1941 in central Asia...
This week, in Manhattan's barnlike Grand Central Palace, U. S. motormakers stage their 41 st National Automobile Show. An American institution, the Show is the springboard of the new selling season. In good years and bad, automen bubble with hope at show time. This year optimism spouts like a geyser. Thanks to defense spending, they expect 1941 sales to be the highest since 1937's 5,016,437 cars, No. 2 automobile year...
Ironically, the blow fell while Export was staging a victory dance on another front. It had invaded Pan Am's semiprivate preserve-Latin America-by buying a phenomenally successful line called TACA (Transposes Aereos Centre Americanos). To the superstitious natives of Central America, TACA is a byword with a touch of magic. Many of them who have never seen an automobile cheerfully clamber into a TACA transport, grin across the aisle at U. S. or English businessmen heading to or from Pan Am's main stem...
...stocky, square-jawed Lowell Yerex, New Zealand flier in World War I. After the war, Yerex spent ten years barnstorming and selling automobiles in the U. S., then drifted south to Honduras with $25 and an old Stinson monoplane, went into business. His business: to haul anything anyplace in Central America a plane could land. He also managed to keep on the right side of the volatile Central American Governments, even did air fighting for Honduras against revolutionists. One day while he was strafing native troops, a rifle bullet smacked his head, put out an eye. A crack pilot...