Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...menu included: fruit cocktail (Texas grapefruit, Brazilian pineapple, Guatemalan bananas, Mexican papaya) ; vegetable plate (Guatemala chayote, Pennsylvania mushrooms, California asparagus, Texas broccoli, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Florida tomatoes); salad (artichoke stuffed with avocado, South American water chestnuts, water-lily roots, papaya); mousse Tropicana (a scooped-out Temple orange, frozen solid, filled with ice cream, chopped figs, dates, California walnuts and Brazilian nuts); pia-pie Brazil (sponge cake and fresh pineapple...
...August 1940, at a newscasting audition for a Los Angeles drugstore chain. Fiery, mustachioed Sidney Sutherland, 52, retired journalist (New York Sun, Chicago Tribune), magazine writer (Liberty) and Hollywood scenarist, did not quite have what Thrifty Drug Stores wanted. Neither did squat, calm José Rodriguez, 42, native Guatemalan, onetime concert pianist, city editor (Los Angeles Herald...
...Stone, a director of New Orleans' Arts & Crafts Club, invited El Salvador and Guatemala to send their best art for an exhibition in New Orleans' Royal Street Gallery, put up a $50 prize for the best painting from each country. Most of the Salvadoran and Guatemalan art looked about as Latin as a Saturday Evening Post cover. Prizes went to Guatemalan Jaime Arimany (for a tropical mountain scene), and Salvadoran José Media Vides (for a bevy of dark-skinned bathers-see cut}. Critics were politely rhapsodic...
...ways to combat Pan Am, hoped for CAB action on the TACA purchase within about a week. Am Ex has the tacit backing of the U. S. War, Navy and State Departments. Pan Am has vast resources, an experienced Washington lobby and the knowledge that TACA's Guatemalan rights, core of the line, will expire next February-unless General Ubico renews them...
First white man to see, accurately describe a quetzal was Robert Owen of England in 1840. Plume-hunters nearly exterminated the birds, which are now protected by the Guatemalan Government. The first live, baby quetzals were taken out of Guatemala by Explorer von Hagen three years ago. Three, all of which have since died, went to The Bronx Zoo. Six went to London. When last heard from two of these were still living. Chicago also acquired two young quetzals last...