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...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...
...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...
...towering, hawk-nosed banana man marched into a United Fruit board meeting with a fist full of proxies and stock certificates and shocked eminent Bostonian directors with a curt demand for power. He got it. They made him "Managing Director in Charge of Operations." From Boston to Bogota the United Fruit organization began to learn what it was to be efficient. In the last half of that year United Fruit's income was nearly three times that of the first half...
Promised the Havana post at the first shuffle of the New Deal.'Diplomat Caffery is quite as experienced a Career Man as his predecessor. Service has taken him from Caracas to Stockholm, from Teheran to Tokyo, from Berlin to Bogota. He can cope effectively with the Latin American mind...