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...Freshman Class show that its members come from 38 states of the Union and 12 foreign countries or territories. Massachusetts contributes the largest number of freshmen, 456; 128 men claim New York as their home state, and 28 Pennsylvania. Among the foreign lands represented are Belgium, China, Colombia, England, Korea, the Philippine Islands, and Syria...
They plan to proceed to Haiti, San Domingo. Porto Rica, then south through the West Indies to Trinidad where they will visit the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. From there their course will be west through the Dutch Lesser Antilles to Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama. They will stop in the Panama Canal Zone for Professor Barbour's annual inspection of the Barro Colorado Island Tropical Research Station of the Institute for Research in Tropical America, of which Mr. Barbour is Chairman...
Late in November Lieut. Benjamin ("Benny the Gas Boy") Mendez, U. S.-trained chief pilot of Colombia's air service, rose from the field at Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I., to fly 4,600 miles to Bogota, capital of Colombia (TIME, Dec. 24). He expected to take four days. Last week he arrived, in another plane. He had been to Jacksonville. Havana. Puerto Barrios, Colon, Cartagena. Barranquilla, Girardot. He had torpedoed into the water at Colon, blasted into a tree at Girardot. After the first eight days he was 2.350 miles from his starting point. After the next...
Banana oil, so called because of its odor resembling bananas, is isoamyl acetate, prepared synthetically and not from bananas as you would have us believe in your article under Colombia, issue...
Costa Rica's Gonzales. G. Gonzalez, son of Costa Rica's President Cleto Gonzalez, pleaded, argued, cajoled with Baxter Douglas Boozer and Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend to fly to Costa Rica. Young Gonzalez wants to go along, to spend Christmas at the Costa Rican presidential palace. But aboard the steamship they would not promise him the trip. There might be an accident; he might be killed. The father Gonzalez would be pained, Costa Ricans vexed...