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...days' mystery proved, last week, to be merely a mistake. "Phil- osopher-General" Lincoln C. Andrews, newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will not, as originally reported, manage the foreign debt business of the U. S. (TIME, Apr. 6). General Andrews has been placed in charge of Customs, Coast Guard, Prohibition Unit, especially the last. The ex-cavalry officer who reorganized the military police system of the A. E. F. was regarded somewhat doubtfully as a supervisor of international billions, was hailed with enthusiasm as a defender of the 18th Amendment...
...rain here for 10 years, here for 34 years, here since Pizarro, here ever. The left shoulder of the South American continent is accustomed to wearing a heavy, blistering coat of sunburn. From lower Ecuador, through the length of Peru to mid-Chile, it is known as the "Dry Coast...
Farther out at sea, however, there flows a warm current from the north, called El Nino (The Child) because it arrives each year at Christmas time. The few rains that have fallen on the Dry Coast have been blessings from El Nino...
...down the Dry Coast, torrents of rain were falling. It rained for days, for weeks, for two months continually. Great rivers came out of the mountains, broad lakes flooded the plains. The ground, hardened by years of baking, at first shed the water in sheets. Then hardy seeds sprouted forth; and, where there had been deserts, lush meadows appeared. The emaciated cattle of Santa Elena gorged and fattened. At Talaro, an inland oil settlement which had lain lifeness in January, a network of streams covered the waste land in March, filling the desert and the very village streets with myriad...
...blessing of El Nino proved overabundant. With their arid lands made a paradise, the natives found themselves economically impoverished. Along the Dry Coast, roofs, never made rainproof, fell in; houses, made of mud, sank to the ground in soggy heaps. Water-filled boats sank. As the waters rose, cattle, gardens, buildings, whole farms and villages were swept from the earth into the sea. The largest losses, practically total, were suffered by the guano* industry. Islands off Peru from which 119,000 tons of guano (nine million dollars' worth) were mined last year, were stripped of their ancient deposits...