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Sixteenth Century Spaniards, to whom the Carib Indians although tortured would not tell the source of their gold ornaments, imagined a place of gold, El Dorado, at the headwaters of the Orinoco River. No known Spaniard nor other white, until last month, ever reached the Orinoco's source. Then Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey of Tippecanoe City, Ohio* and Manhattan, his bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river...
Colombian Petroleum is controlled by Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania (Mellon-controlled), buyer of a 75% interest for $2,500,000 in 1926. The remaining 25% is held by Carib Syndicate, Ltd., among whose directors are Charles Hayden of Hayden. Stone & Co., Ernest Stauffen Jr. of Marine Midland Corp. The Barco Concession is in the Department of North Santander, 200 miles from the Caribbean...
...total of 1929. To "help hasten a revival, Pan American last week provisionally slashed fares by an average of 30%-reductions ranging from 8% to 42%. Immediate objective is to coax U.S. traveling salesmen to fly into South America, also to stimulate tourist travel in the Carib bean. Some reductions: Miami-Rio de Janeiro, from $763 to $603; Miami-Cristobal, C. Z., from $329 to $223; Brownsville, Tex.-Cristobal, from $332 to $232; Miami-Havana, from $45 to $28; Miami-Nassau, from...
Sabatini is to the fore again with The Lion's Skin (Houghton, Mifflin). Connubial conventions go glimmering in Wallace Irwin's Mated (Putnam) and Reginald Wright Kauffman's Free Love (Macaulay). There is a full-blooded tale called Carib Gold (Bobbs-Merrill) by onetime U. S. All-Around Athletic Champion Ellery H. Clark, and a new Alaskan tale, Child of the Wild (Cosmopolitan) by Edison Marshall (The Sleeper of the Moonlit Ranges, Seward's Folly...
...controlling an epidemic of plague on an island in the West Indies Drs. Arrowsmith and Sondelius burn a Carib village...