Word: carribean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sachs '29, L. S. Hess Sp., and R. F. Courtney '29, will debate against a team from the University of Porto Rico this evening in Paine Hall on the question: "Resolved. That the United States should cease to protect by armed forces American investments in the Carribean, without prior declaration of war." Harvard will uphold the negative side...
...which will face Carleton and the University of Porto Rico. The question which will be argued in the debate with the Porto Ricans corresponds very nearly to that in the other debate. It reads: "Resolved, That the United States cease to protect with armed forces American investments in the Carribean without prior declaration...
...ideas of the country--that of size and complexity on the one hand, and of change and crisis on the other. India covers an area as great as the continent of Europe, not including Russia, and if superimposed on the United States, would stretch from Maine to the Carribean and into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
...been operating that concession, was amalgamated early in 1920 with the International Petroleum Company, a Canadian subsidiary of the Standard Oil, and plans have recently been formulated for the completion of a refinery near the wells and for the construction of a $20,000,000 pipe line to the Carribean ports. The Transcontinental Oil Company, of Delaware, organized in 1919, is about to undertake active exploitation of a tract of one million acres near the DcMares field; and the British Balfour group, which is interested in Peru, also holds a claim in that vicinity. This upper Magdalena basin may well...
...subsidiary of the Henry L. Doherty interests of Pittsburg. Transportation problems have somewhat embarrassed these operations since the field is accessible only from the east by way of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracalbo; but it is now proposed to lay a two hundred mile pipe line to the Carribean over a hitherto unfrequented pass which is over five thousand feet in elevation...