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Word: colombia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the President of Colombia decided last year to improve his country's scrawny live stock, the Tigers flew hundreds of U.S. bulls, rams, boars and stallions to Colombian breeders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying a Tiger | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...Colombia prepared to inaugurate a new President last week, political tension combined with winter weather to make the capital city of Bogota cold and clammy. The state of siege under which the Conservatives had elected their presidential candidate, Laureano Gómez, was still very much in force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Blades of Grass | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Whisky & Calm. Colombia's Liberals, still claiming that Gómez' election was illegal, talked and gestured but did nothing. Ex-President Alfonso López and ex-Candidate Darío Echandia merely left Bogota for the inauguration weekend. Liberal newspapers ignored all news of the inauguration, of President Pérez and President-elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Blades of Grass | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Eliptico of the Capitol, Gómez praised U.S. action in Korea, and promised Colombians reconstruction of their country "on firm and austere bases." The ending of his speech was apt: "We men are only blades of grass in the hands of God. May His omnipotent hand save Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Blades of Grass | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...clear summer afternoon of June 27, the American Export passenger-cargo liner S.S. Excalibur nosed out of New York harbor into a collision with the inbound Danish freighter Colombia (TIME, July 10). As water poured through a 38-foot hole between the Excalibur's No. 2 and No. 3 holds, Captain Samuel Groves rang up full speed, beached her on the mud bottom off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Within an hour all 114 passengers had been taken off and American Export Lines began a furious race to get the Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mediterranean Milkman | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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