Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government-owned farm in Guatemala one day last week, Dr. William Cowgill (rhymes with low bill) picked a heaping basketful of coffee cherries. The cherries came from one of the trees that Cowgill, as chief of the coffee section of the joint U.S.-Guatemalan agricultural development project, had carefully tended for nearly four years. When the cherries were beaten, washed, dried, scraped, and reduced to cafe en oro (the exportable bean), visiting coffee planters could hardly believe their eyes. From the same species of tree, Coffea arabica, they-and most other Latin American producers-had seldom harvested much more than...
When Cowgill started his Guatemalan researches in 1945, the world seemed to have a lot more coffee than it needed. But by last week all that had changed. In the last three months of 1949, coffee prices almost doubled. U.S. consumption had soared above prewar levels, and Latin America's output lagged behind. Cowgill thinks that the work he has been doing will help close...
Most coffee planters-"there are no coffee growers," says Cowgill-plant the trees and leave the real production problems to their poorly paid help, who simply follow tradition. In Guatemala, the tradition was set about 50 years ago in a handbook written by an Englishman after a three-week tour of Central America. Its main recommendation to coffee planters: plenty of shade (from other taller trees) and 12-ft. spacing between the coffee trees. Though his experiments are not yet conclusive, Cowgill believes that the elimination of shade would increase production. His experiments also indicate that the number of coffee...
...Lima courtroom last week, Coleman C. Wilcox, 34, an airline radio operator from Kansas City, Mo., was found guilty of having shot and seriously wounded his wife's admirer. When he rose for sentencing, the judge admonished Wilcox to "display more judiciousness in your relations with other people," ordered him to pay the victim's $1,500 hospital bill, and gave him a six months' suspended sentence. Said the state prosecutor, well satisfied with the outcome: "Such sentences have a preventive nature. They are like signs above the entrances to our homes saying: 'Seductor, cuidado [Seducer...
...Last week, in a sarcastic gesture of their own, they retaliated. For a whole morning, members of the aggressively leftist Club de Choferes Lázaro Cárdenas (1,200 drivers) invited everybody for free rides. That afternoon they drove en masse to Los Pinos to shout their grievances under the windows of the Casa Crema, Mexico's cream-colored White House, even though President Aleman was out of town. When police discovered that the drivers had no permit for any such demonstration, they arrested 111 drivers for disorderly conduct, brought up tow trucks to haul their cabs...