Word: cartagena
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Imperceptibly interest was already shifting from the tables of the diplomats at Nyon to blue Mediterranean waters at a spot near Cartagena. There Leftist Spanish divers claimed to have established contact with a "pirate" submarine paralyzed on the sea bottom by depth charges...
...Leftist Government. With his predecessor, General Jose Asenseo, booted upstairs to Undersecretary of War, General Pozas moved mountains to get a sense of discipline and a few rudiments of drill into his militiamen. A lucky hit by a rebel bomber on a reported Russian freighter unloading at Cartagena seemed to prove Britain's assertion that Russia was supplying tanks, artillery and planes to Spain's Red Government, but practically none of this material last week reached the Madrid front. President Manual Azana of Spain and other Cabinet officers had fled fortnight ago to Barcelona and this week...
...have read of the harrowing adventures of men who went into South American jungles well provisioned and armed and with guides. I smile, because I left Cartagena with nothing, not even a pocket knife, and lived in the jungle for almost six months. Five or six big jaguars that I encountered looked at me curiously and then scampered off. They were well fed on deer and pigs, and apparently had no wish to taste a half-starved Frenchman. At first the snakes bothered me, but finally I became accustomed to them...
...investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields are deep in mountainous jungles, far from water transport. Even more important in delaying Colombian developments were the involvements of Colombian concession laws. Standard's 356-mi. Andean Pipe Line from its De Mares Concession to Cartagena on the Caribbean has carried virtually all the oil Colombia has ever produced, less than 175,000,000 bbl. Most famed of Colombia's undeveloped concessions is the Barco, covering an area larger than that of Rhode Island. Originally granted to the late General Virgilio Barco, an able Colombian...
...President to visit the Panama Canal, which he crossed in six hours. Day before he had been the first President ever to set foot in South American soil, the first to address the nation by radio from a foreign state. The last two "firsts" were recorded at Cartagena where he and Colombia's President Enrique Olaya Herrera greeted each other. After mutual professions of esteem and goodwill, the two Presidents took a drive about the 400-year-old capital of the Spanish Main. A point of interest was the old fort over the harbor. President Roosevelt could claim no direct...