Word: colombia
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...walk to every South American country. Last week the seamy featured old President received with relish the news that Scout Carlos Arturo Zembrana is still walking still the favorite to win the $10,000 prize. Aged 11, Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the extreme northern tip of Chile, the jungles of embattled Bolivia and Paraguay and on to Argentina's spacious, glittering Buenos Aires where he arrived last week aged 14, approximately at the halfway mark ot his walk. With at least another 4,000 miles of tramping ahead...
...President Roosevelt last week stepped Career Diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse up from Minister to Guatemala to Minister to Colombia. An urbane gentleman with wavy hair and elegant manners. Minister Whitehouse was educated at Eton and Yale, got into the Foreign Service as private secretary to the late great Whitelaw Reid when the New York Tribune publisher was Ambassador to Great Britain. As counsel of the Paris embassy in 1927 he was roundly flayed in Congress when it was discovered that sleuths had been sent after New York's Mayor Walker as that playboy took his fun in Paris...
...speaks of equipment he means it also to include experience. And there he feels Pan American has a large advantage over all others when an ocean is to be flown. For three years Pan American has flown ships over 600 mi. of the Caribbean from Kingston, Jamaica to Barranquilla, Colombia. In their 1,380 flights, no ship has missed either terminal by more than three miles. Out of sight of land for at least six hours, the pilots keep unerringly on course by means of radio equipment privately designed and built by Pan American. Roping South America and the Caribbean...
John Lager's next great discovery was a pure fluke. In 1908 he sent a crate of 1,000 dormant,unpotted orchid plants from Colombia to his greenhouses in New Jersey. Since they were not in flower, there was no way of telling more than that they were Cattleya Gigas, a fairly common orchid family. Of the 1,000, about half were sold in small quantities to other nurserymen just as they left the crate. The rest Mr. Lager potted, put in the greenhouse. In 1910 one plant suddenly bloomed pure white. No pure white Cattleya Gigas has ever...
...grimy little port on the Upper Amazon, named by a romantic engineer for a Miss Leticia Smith (who married someone else), Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922. Its population remained predominantly Peruvian...