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...Andes, across the pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars. Bristling, pastel-colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with...
...rate to 2¾% in 1888, 2½% in 1902. There is also a 4%, issue of Consols, sold in 1927. These bonds have no maturity date. A favorite section is "Home Rails," including, of course, Great Western, London, Midland & Scottish, Southern, and Metropolitan ("Mets"). Foreign rails include Antofagasta-Bolivia Railroad ("Fags"), Canadian Pacific, and Costa Rican. The bank division lists the British banks, also Chartered Bank of India, Bank of Hongkong, National Bank of Egypt and others. Imperial Chemical heads the chemical group while the textiles include Celanese, Coats and Courtaulds. Industrials include Vickers (steel), De Havilland Aircraft, Imperial...
From Panama it will be easy to extend airmail and passenger service into South America. Pan-American Airways, Inc., for whom Col. Lindbergh flew, announced that it intends soon to extend its routes to Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta, Valparaiso and across the Andes to Buenos Aires. Airmail flown thus from Manhattan to Buenos Aires can arrive in five days. By ship down the Atlantic, Manhattan-Buenos Aires mail now takes 14 to 17 days...
...Antofagasta. Down out of the mountains which are Bolivia went 70 dignitaries and notables (including many ladies) from La Paz, across the nitrate plain which is Chile and so aboard the Maryland in the harbor of Antofagasta. Mr. & Mrs. Hoover lunched them all on the quarterdeck. In his speech, Mr. Hoover stated that the history of Bolivia and its hero, Simon Bolivar, are as familiar to U. S. schoolchildren as to Bolivian schoolchildren...
Reasons making the Antofagasta stop worthwhile for all concerned: 1) More U. S. capital is invested in Bolivia (tin, oil) than in any other S. A. country; 2) the U. S. holds all Bolivia's external debt bonds. 3) the Tacna-Arica dispute might be settled some day by letting Bolivia buy back her road-to-the-sea, as suggested by Secretary Kellogg...