Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London went suave Careerist Arthur Bliss Lane, 50, an appointment which should put Polish-Americans in a good election-year mood. To The Netherlands went solemn Stanley Hornbeck, 61, onetime chief of the State Department's Far Eastern division; to Bolivia, Walter Thurston, 48, of Colorado; to Colombia, John Cooper Wiley, U.S. Minister to Latvia and Estonia until 1941; to El Salvador, John F. Simmons, 52, who began as a U.S. consular clerk...
...approach of war's end and the prospects of record crops scared traders into dumping their futures contracts. Wheat prices slumped some 4? a bushel, oats 10? and rye 14?. But paradoxically Latin American producers of foodstuffs were cheered by the nearness of German defeat. In Brazil, Colombia and Cuba, sellers rebelled at contracting ahead for delivery of coffee, cocoa and sugar at U.S. ceiling prices. They expect a rush of orders, at good prices, from Europe...
...Colombia's Poet-Novelist José Eustasio Rivera on the jungle: "No cooing nightingales here, no Versaillian gardens or sentimental vistas! Instead the croaking of dropsical frogs ... the aphrodisiac parasite that covers the ground with dead insects, the disgusting blooms that throb with sensual palpitations. . . . Stretched from tree to palm in long, elastic curves, like carelessly hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere...
...Bogotá, Colombia, Abjon Jaramillo, 75, father of 43 (30 by his first wife, 13 by his second), was reported father of quadruplets...
...Fund (where quotas determine a nation's borrowing and voting limit), Colombia and Chile, like several other nations, wanted quotas bigger than $45 million. Mexico's Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros brought down the house by voluntarily giving each of them $5 million from the $100 million allotted to his country...