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Working in Bogota (Colombia) and Quito (Ecuador), Sculptor Davidson did two of his jobs at altitudes of more than 8,000 feet. Growled he: "That is very close to God for a sculptor. I have never been so close before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Head-Hunter's Return | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...paid off in oil, or written off as a bad debt. But the real value of the properties lies in oil beneath the ground. With Mexico denying their "subsoil rights" (or canceling them with a token payment), they shudder to think what might happen in other countries. In Venezuela, Colombia, elsewhere in & outside the Hemisphere, oil companies have investments that make their Mexican properties look like peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Face-Saving Dilemma | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...piracy." But this attack and the other attacks were, he continued, part of a pattern, a Nazi design to abolish freedom of the seas in order to control and dominate the world. He mentioned other Nazi plots*; Of Panama registry though all four were U.S.-owned. in Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia -aimed at the same goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: You Shall Go No Further | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

South and Central America can also point to a sizable representation in the Class of '45, with Argentine, Brazil, the Canal Zone, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela combining to contribute a total of ten students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1945 Registers 997 Strong in Memorial Hall, Packs Union to Listen to Bradford, Sperry, Gummere | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

...Colombia put several German suspects in jail. In Nicaragua many another found himself in hot water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Good-&-Tough Neighbors | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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