Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puerto Carreno, Colombia, the chief of a hostile Indian tribe sent his braves prowling under the fuselage of a giant trimotored Ford transport plane to steal the "big bird's eggs," so that the chief could hatch planes of his own to fight the white...
...years ago the Colombian Navy splashed into the news by racing 5,000 mi. around South America and up the Amazon River to the scene of a potential war with Peru. Peru has a sad navy: two old cruisers, three destroyers, four submarines. Colombia has one even sadder: six little gunboats, the biggest under 700 tons, and some coast guard patrol boats.* Luckily the League of Nations settled the "war" in Colombia's favor, but the worried Colombians have lately been picking up bargains in second-hand war boats. Thus a U. S. steamer named the Commercial Traveler...
...late 1920s Brazil began to store up coffee and future trouble for itself in the form of two revolutions. Though other coffee lands like Colombia, Guatemala, etc. can produce some 40% of the world's demand, Brazil's crop alone was larger than total world consumption in 1929. The following year 16,500,000 bags were bought up and pledged under a $97,000,000 foreign loan with the idea of liquidating both the loan and the coffee over a period of ten years. In 1931 Brazil was again knocked to her knees with another bumper crop. Finance...
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...
Against Dr. Lopez's election last winter there was no opposition. He really began the campaign four years earlier when he assumed active charge of the Liberal Party which had not elected a President in 44 years and was considered Colombia's political mummy. With artful zeal Dr. Lopez built up tall, big-boned, Enrique Olaya Herrera, then Colombian Minister at Washington, into a popular candidate and secured his election (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). This year President Olaya took such strenuous steps to return the compliment and secure Dr. Lopez's election that his chief opponent...