Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week by the Senate Committee, the list was gloomy reading, showed $815,000,000 worth of dollar bonds in default. There were 57 issues listed, every one the obligation of some South American government, state or municipality. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile. Peru have defaulted on their government bonds. In Colombia and Uruguay payments on municipal issues have been allowed to lapse. Included on the list were defaults of either interest or sinking fund payments. Approximate totals: Brazil, $318,000,000; Chile, $268,000,000; Peru, $91,000,000; Bolivia, $61,000,000; Colombia, $11,000,000; Uruguay...
...American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
...survivors-eleven men-were of the S. S. Baden-Baden, once famed as the rotor ship invented by Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five...
...Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton, famed fiscal diagnostician, was named to represent Federal Reserve Bank of New York at a conference of South American central banks in Lima, Peru next month. Bolivia called the meeting to ponder the mutual fiscal problems of herself and Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador. The central banks of all five countries were established on the advice of Dr. Kemmerer so his attendance was expected, but it is unusual for the Reserve to go out of its official family for its chief representative. Accompanying Dr. Kemmerer will be Allan Sproul and Eric F. Lamb, both...
...Took Panama." Most disputed point in any Roosevelt chronicle : Did the President personally incite the revolution of 1903 whereby Panama seceded from Colombia and opened the way for the construction of a U. S. canal? After a re-examination of all available evidence Biographer Pringle concludes that he did not directly plot the uprising but that he was "extremely well informed" as to the conspirators' plan. The Panama Republic was cradled in Room No. 1162 of the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Bent on selling the French franchise to the U. S., Philippe Bunau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell buzzed often...