Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. MacDonald and McKay's luck was of the kind that sounds more credible in books than in life. In Manhattan a retired orchid hunter gave them a map with orchid hotspots neatly indicated. In Bogota they fell in with 67-year-old J. B., "six feet three inches tall, lean and hard, definitely English." His hunches about orchid hiding places were nearly infallible. With this sort of luck and help the young men made good...
...farmers and to the D.N.C. which now has a $72,000,000 deficit. Meanwhile, world coffee prices have notably failed to rise. From 20? a lb. in 1929, coffee fell to 7? in 1933. Highest level since has been 11½ touched early this year following a conference in Bogota which seemed to promise that Brazil might finally get some cooperation from other coffee producing nations. For that is the crux of the problem. While Brazil has rigorously and painfully sliced away at her own surplus, necessarily sacrificing some part of her share of the world market, rival nations, notably...
...prevent speculation, all Brazilian coffee exchanges were last week ordered closed. In Bogota, the Exchange Control Board of Colombia tightened up on foreign exchange and coffee exchanges buzzed. In the U. S., world's greatest coffee drinking nation, the New Orleans Exchange closed its doors and prices broke the full 1? daily limit on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. By week's end December coffee options were down to 7?per lb. U. S. retail coffee prices remained unchanged, however, because it takes about a month for Brazilian coffee to reach the U. S. and not until...
...cell battery or observing goldfish in a pan of deaerated water to prove that fish must breathe. The geography course recounts the travels of an imaginary Hamilton family, conveniently consisting of one child in each age group and Grandmother Hamilton, who provides learned commentary on places from Bogota to Baffin Island where Mr. Hamilton "has business." Enormously popular, the American School of the Air is regularly heard by pupils in every state...
Once the agent in Colombia of Dillon, Read & Co., suave, bankerish Dr. Alfonso Lopez was last week inaugurated President while a mob of 50,000 jammed Bogota's Plaza Bolivar and roared themselves hoarse...