Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Colombia, the conference host, had popped off and granted Somoza recognition. Most Latin American republics would probably soon follow Colombia's lead. If such a bandwagon started rolling, the U.S. might have to climb aboard, no matter whether it liked all the passengers...
...effect, make Panama a satellite of Colombia...
...Colombia rushed gasoline up from Peru when 6,000 Tropical (Standard) Oil Co. workers walked out in protest against the firing of exploration crews...
...Mike Benedum prowled the world in search of oil, losing fortunes in Peru and China, but making bigger ones on major strikes in Mexico, Colombia, Rumania. His most spectacular achievement was the discovery of the great Yates pool in Texas, in 1926. It prompted his claim that "Joe and I have unloosed more oil than anyone else." In unloosing it Benedum piled up a fortune estimated at over $80,000,000. The new strike, big as it was, proved only that a wildcatter could never quit...
Nobody had the answer: already stevedores' wages were better than those paid in other ports of Colombia. As for the cargo bottleneck, it will be eased only when the single track railway and the unpaved highway leading into the interior are improved, and so far no plans are afoot for the work...