Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Caracas' tiny Hogar Americano lecture hall one night last week filed 150 smartly dressed Venezuelans. The evening's attraction: recitations from their own works by a four-man road company of Spanish poets. It was one of several "cultural" sideshows currently touring Latin America to illumine the beauties of Francisco Franco's Hispanidad. The mistress of ceremonies, a local poetess named Alicia Larralde de Ferrero, did not observe that more than a dozen uninvited guests had joined the audience...
...After weeks of bickering and days of dickering, the quarrel between Colonial Airlines and Trans-Canada Air Lines (TIME, Dec. 12 et seq.) reached a satisfactory-if temporary-solution last week...
...London last week, the Wheat Council, meeting in closed session, was considering first the question of sending the grain to Germany and Japan, then the problem of how to divide the shipments among the exporting countries...
Panair do Brasil, No. 1 Brazilian airline and Pan American Airways' biggest subsidiary, last week had its worst operational accident in years. One of its accountants was missing, and so was at least $275,000 of company funds...
...Panair executives, who had built up perhaps the finest operational record of any South American airline, the scandal was tough luck. Last week, Pan American, which owns 48% of Panair's stock, rushed a task force of two vice presidents and two controllers from the U.S. to go over the books behind locked doors. As reports spread that the shortage was much greater than first announced, Panair Manager Frank Sampaio abruptly resigned, without explanation...