Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birdman Chapman's scientific reputation rests securely on two 700-page volumes on the distribution of bird life in Colombia and Ecuador...
...stop fighting her everlasting war with Bolivia over the Gran Chaco (TIME, July 17 et ante). Bolivia's refusal to sign indicated her resolve to battle on under German General Hans Kundt. Because the League of Nations has not yet finished adjudicating the Leticia dispute between Peru and Colombia which brought those nations to war (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.) they refused to sign last week, as did Ecuador which adjoins the Leticia region and hopes to have a finger in the final settlement, peaceful or otherwise. Apart from the Anti-War Pact, by which Argentina and Brazil...
...Bogota. Colombia last week, in the midst of a Senate debate on state relief for large families, a Senator uprose to read a telegram just received announcing the birth of seven children, all boys, all living, to Carola and Luis Perez of San Pedro. Some U.S. newsreaders would have been more impressed if they had not just scanned Dr. Palmer Findley's The Story of Childbirth, published last fortnight.* Therein appears a picture of the medieval Italian, Dorothea, her monstrous abdomen supported by a neck-swung hoop, who gave birth to nine babies in her first pregnancy, eleven...
...walk to every South American country. Last week the seamy featured old President received with relish the news that Scout Carlos Arturo Zembrana is still walking still the favorite to win the $10,000 prize. Aged 11, Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the extreme northern tip of Chile, the jungles of embattled Bolivia and Paraguay and on to Argentina's spacious, glittering Buenos Aires where he arrived last week aged 14, approximately at the halfway mark ot his walk. With at least another 4,000 miles of tramping ahead...
...speaks of equipment he means it also to include experience. And there he feels Pan American has a large advantage over all others when an ocean is to be flown. For three years Pan American has flown ships over 600 mi. of the Caribbean from Kingston, Jamaica to Barranquilla, Colombia. In their 1,380 flights, no ship has missed either terminal by more than three miles. Out of sight of land for at least six hours, the pilots keep unerringly on course by means of radio equipment privately designed and built by Pan American. Roping South America and the Caribbean...