Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last February Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera, for eight years the Colombian minister at Washington, was elected President of Colombia. It was a unique election in that no one was killed in the campaign, no one contested the victory afterward...
...into seclusion. A few days later the U. S. rode him back to Washington in a special train. At the Union Station top-hatted officials from the State Department lined up to greet him. Military and naval units snapped to salute. The Marine Band groped its way through the Colombian national anthem (El Himno National). Guns fired 21 rounds...
...project are nine companies, with the Insull interests representing the distributing end and Cities Service Co. representing the producers, who will share the $100,000,000 cost of the project. Chief of the producing companies are Texas Corp. and Standard of New Jersey, with Skelly, Phillips, Continental, Colombian Carbon, United Carbon also interested...
...shutdown of Gulf's Colombian fields marked the final step in a series of Latin-American difficulties. In 1926 Gulf's Colombian production was seriously diminished by the cancellation of the Barco Concession,-a concession which unique Henry L. Doherty's Cities Service Co. had obtained from the late great Colombian Virgilio Barco and had then sold to Gulf. In 1929 the Colombian Government upheld this cancellation and the matter is now before the Colombian courts. Gulf Oil has also recently suspended operations in Panama and Mexico...
...action of the Colombian legislature in increasing the tax on petroleum production was interpreted (by Wall St.) as the result of British maneuvering in the world-wide competition for petroleum properties. Specifically, the Gulf departure from the Colombian field was considered a development favorable to Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding and his Royal Dutch-Shell group...