Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department opened direct negotiations with Colombia in an effort to persuade the Colombian Government to oust 20-odd German pilots, said to be German reserve officers, from service on the Scadia Airline, whose routes fly close by the Panama Canal...
...Colombia expropriated all commercial aviation, most of which was German- owned, -staffed, -piloted. Minerals began moving...
...synthetic revolution of 1903 when the new Republic of Panama was set up (and instantly recognized by Roosevelt 1) after Colombia, the owner of the Isthmus, refused to grant the U. S. a canal concession. Said T. R.: "I took Panama...
JOSEPH H. SPEAR The Anglo American School Bogotá, Colombia...
...Norman MacDonald & Frank McKay of suburban Nutley, N. J., such odds seemed better than their humdrum jobs (a broker's office, a radio-tube factory). Resolved to hunt orchids themselves, they somehow persuaded U. S. orchid growers to stake them to orders for 6,400 cattleyas from Colombia and Venezuela. When, one Christmas Eve, the venturesome young men reached Boca Grande, Orchid Hunter MacDonald was already at work on notes for his readable, Rover-Boyish orchid odyssey...