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...Cristobal-Miami run one day last week. The crew and two passengers were thankful to be up in the gusty sky instead of down on the surface of the Caribbean which still writhed and tossed from a whipping by a three-day gale. About 100 mi. short of Barranquilla, Colombia, first stop on the plane's northering flight via Jamaica, Pilot Frank Ormsbee saw something that made him nose rapidly down toward the water...
...American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
...survivors-eleven men-were of the S. S. Baden-Baden, once famed as the rotor ship invented by Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five...
...world as physician to sick money systems. Princeton has loaned him freely to various nations since 1912, but long before (in 1903), he helped the U. S. Philippine Commission start the islands off on the gold standard. Since then he has probed the problems of Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Union of South Africa, Chile, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Panama and Peru. In 1925 he analyzed the economic ills of the great nations of Europe, serving as the expert on currency and banking for the Dawes Committee. So sound and fruitful have been his labors that the name of Edwin Walte...
...volume, the Annual Report glances about the world, thus: "By general consent 1930 was a gloomy and depressing year in China's political history. . . . The political situation in Colombia has shown no improvement. . . . Burma was affected during the year by a series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of the Egyptian Agency (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, etc.) it says: "There Pharaoh oppressed and Candace reigned, where Herod wantoned and Moses died, where Muhammad fled and the Mahdi slew. ..." Against these backgrounds are painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic...