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...suggesting that the whole matter be left to the Supreme Court for decision. The soldiers brushed the idea aside. Bustamante knew then that he was finished, but he sat on stubbornly in his grandiose palace on the Plaza de Armas until four officers came to escort him to the Limatambo airfield and Argentine exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Right Turn | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...West Coast, connected with a route reaching straight across South America from Rio de Janeiro, thus was important out of all proportion to its size. When two German freighters were scuttled in the Peruvian harbor of Callao last week (see p. 41), troops rushed to the L.P. airport at Limatambo. There they found Ernest Eilers, L.P. manager, and Ernest Krefft, manager of Kosmos-Hapag Steamship Agency, preparing to flee from Peru in the L.P. Junkers. The troops took over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Wings Over South America | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...great importance, but your article under "Manufacturing" in the issue of Jan. 2 regarding vicuñas is a little misleading, if the enclosed snapshot [see cut] means any thing. This shows . . . Rosita, a vicuña, at Limatambo airport, near Lima, Peru, altitude approximately 400 feet, where Rosita lived for some months and was still there when I left a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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