Word: bogot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Bogotá the airport radio operator for the airline (Avianca, a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways) received a routine message: the DC-4 was 30 minutes out, would soon ask for landing instructions. For several hours there was no more. Then came a message from upcountry. Thirty miles north of the field, Avianca's DC-4 nad crashed into the vertical, cloud-shrouded face of Mt. Tablazo. a 9,000-foot peak in the Sierra Sabana range. Then it fell flaming, 1,000 feet into the ravine below. The DC-4's 53 were dead...
...Bogotá last week a sewer explosion sent Colombians to their knees in supplication. They thought it was The Bomb. Almost everywhere else in the hemisphere, the rumble of politics and the rattle of poker chips drowned out Bikini's blast. Democrats shouted, and dictators swung their whips. Strong men gambled for high stakes and played penny ante on the side...
...Union began to poll its members on postponement of the Rio conference. Onto the bridge stepped Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes: postponement would be agreeable to the U.S. if other nations wanted it. Then the Colombians, who will entertain all 21 republics at a regular Pan American conference at Bogotá next December, obligingly suggested that the whole business of a military treaty be put off till then...
...cabled our election report to our pressmen in Bogotá and Sao Paulo-sent it by special facsimile transmission to Buenos Aires - radio-photoed it to Honolulu so the printers who turn out 100,000 copies of TIME in the mid-Pacific each week could hold to their regular schedules...