Word: barranquilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WENDELL S. DOVE, M.D. Barranquilla, Colombia...
Colombian coffee is good and I have taken it in the drab little cafés on the misty Bogota savannah, in subtropical Gali and industrial Medellin, as well as in picturesque Cartagena, sultry Santa Marta and sandy Barranquilla. But certainly it is not worth ten centavos [TIME...
Profits & Losses. On top of these added costs, traders disgusted with shipping delays began switching from the Caribbean port of Barranquilla, at the Magdalena's mouth, to the Pacific port of Buenaventura, which is linked to Bogotá by train and truck. Result: Naviera Colombiana's operations, which once yielded a profit averaging a million and more pesos a year, showed a loss of 212,000 pesos ($123,000) in the first half...
South above the green Magdalena River Valley droned a big four-motored DC-4 on one of the world's most famed time-saving runs; by boat or train it is four days from steamy, coastal Barranquilla to highland Bogotá, by air 2¼ hours. This run had the usual vanload of time-savers -49 passengers (including five U.S. businessmen) plus a crew of four...
Antioquenos are colonizing Colombia's cities as well as its mountainsides. Penniless paisas (Antioqueno peasants) arrive in Barranquilla or Bogota, marry a rich man's daughter (if possible), set up as peddlers or petty merchants in any case. In one generation, by shrewd trading, they end up as merchant princes or industrialists. A sizable part of Bogota's industries and banks are controlled by Medellinenses...