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...single machine of the Dominican Republic. Suddenly last week their months of flight talk were shocked to a dismayed whisper as word was received that seven of the nine flyers, the whole Cuban contingent, had been killed in an almost incredible triple collision in the mountains of Colombia...
...running a special Cuban section in Hearst newspapers. Having sold the idea, Mr. De Besa adroitly sold the advertising space to Cuban interests, then collected and wrote a glowing account of Boss Machado & friends which appeared only in the Washington Herald. After similar activity on behalf of Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Santo Domingo, Mr. De Besa, flashing a setting of diamonds given him by dictators, slipped back into Washington as chief of a Dominican Republic News Bureau set up for him by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Molina Trujillo...
From many parts of the world, field collections were presented to the herbarium, as follows: 249 ferns of Cuba: 118 plants of Colombia; 24 rare species secured on Arctic expeditions; 459 plants of Del Norte Country, California; three isotypes of new srectes; 237 plants of Hawaii; 42 rare plants of Indiana; 30 plants of Costa Rica; 1761 plants from Brazil; 45 local or critical plants of California; 99 plants illustrating critical Flora of the Aleutian Islands; 292 plants of Jamaica and the southern United States; 3087 critical herbaceous plants, chiefly of South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered...
...secured the solemn pledges of Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela to get busy. To their collection the ladies added the promise of Argentina's President, Agustin P. Justo, then headed across the Andes for Santiago, Chile. Next in line for a pressure visit come Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama...
...realize that you will undoubtedly receive numerous letters expressing both amazement and doubt as to the overland trip from Colombia to Panama through this comparatively unexplored and almost impenetrable jungle. We, therefore, take this opportunity to reassure all such scribes. We have records to show that the pack train was serviced all the way with axle grease and the latest in horse shoes by our service stations, which same extend in an unbroken chain all the way from the Colombian border to Panama City (?). No doubt but that the trail blazed by Señor Divo is the forerunner...