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April 20-Arrival of Enrique Olaya Herrera, President of Colombia, for one-month U. S. visit...
...further solidification of Pan American Airways' position as leader of South American air transport routes. Its president, Juan Terry Trippe, announced a cooperative operating agreement with "Scadta" (Sociedad Colombo-Alemena de Transportes Aereos), an air transport system involving about 3,000 miles of routes in the Republic of Colombia. Joined into the links of P. A. A.'s vast chain of 13,000 miles (TIME, Feb. 17), the two systems present a formidable front to other air transport companies on the continent...
...will be fully under the guidance of the School. Graduate courses will be provided. Operating in conjunction with the new School is the recently endowed Bureau of International Finance, under the direction of famed Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, whose succoring of commercially sick nations has taken him to Chile, Colombia, Bolivia. Ecuador, Poland, South Africa...
...began his South American travels, from which he gained his reputation as an explorer, his admission to the Explorers' Club. Each exploration produced a book. The 1,000-mi. jungle journey along the route of Bolivar became Journal of an Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia (1909). His exploration of the old Spanish trade route from Buenos Aires to Lima, resulted in Across South America (1911). He led a Peruvian expedition which discovered the last Inca capital, climbed Mt. Corpuna (21,703 ft.) in the Andes. Out of these excursions came Vitcos, the Last Inca Capital (1912), In the Wonderland...
...Colombia last week went South American Gulf Oil Co., subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corp., the great Pennsylvania petroleum company controlled by the great Pennsylvania Mellons. All field operations were suspended following the decision of the Colombian legislature to add 16% tax to existing royalties collected by the government from oil producers...