Word: colombia
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...great field for this is the Barco concession in Colombia, which Texas acquired jointly with Socony-Vacuum (TIME, May 4). The other is in the Middle and Far East...
...Alumni Association, and member of the Board of Overseers; George Rublee '90 of Washington, D. C., a lawyer and formerly member of the Federal Trade Commission and legal adviser to the American Embassy in Mexico, to the American delegation to the London Naval Conference, and to the government of Colombia; Right Reverend James DeW. Perry '92 of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States...
...offer from an undisclosed group for its 21% interest in the fabulous Barco oil concession. Since little Carib did not have the money to play along with its big partners, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. and Texas Corp., in development of the jungle oil properties in Colombia, the stockholders authorized their directors to accept the offer (TIME...
Simon Bolivar, hero of Latin America, called the first Pan-American Congress. It met in Panama in 1826 and wrote a treaty of "perpetual confederation." Typical of that meeting were two facts: only one nation, Colombia, ever ratified the treaty; the U. S. delegates, appointed by President John Quincy Adams, arrived after the meeting had adjourned...
Last week Ward's shipped a big consignment (value undisclosed) of rocks, fossils, insects, snake skulls, animal and human skeletons to the Exposition Nacional de 1936 at Barranquilla, Colombia. Last week also, with hundreds of small orders for fossils and other material coming in from school children the world over, Ward's officials were basking in the knowledge that the establishment would show a year-end profit for the first time in its 74-year history. University of Rochester alumni were apprised of the present doings of Ward's in the current issue of the Rochester Alumni...