Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the way our pilots are stunting over this crowd," said the President-Elect Eduardo Santos last week to War Minister Alberto Pumarejo as they stood on a brilliantly bedight reviewing stand, surrounded by Colombian dignitaries and their wives, watching a review opening Bogotá's great new military field, Campo de Marte...
...verified that all pilots had received orders not to fly lower than 500 feet. South Americans especially regretted that the Colombian tragedy occurred on the 155th anniversary of the birth of their great hero, Simon Bolivar...
...Fourteen days later, lucky to be only half dead, they reached Trinidad. The sympathetic British took them in, gave them a new boat, told them to push on. In Colombia, their boat wrecked, robbed by Indians, they skulked naked along the coast for a week, finally reached a Colombian town, where they were arrested. Belbenoit's comrades were deported. He was allowed to escape after writing a series of articles for the local paper. In five months he reached Panama by paddling stolen canoes (21 in all) along the coast...
...objects taken were of the pre-Colombian period, it was revealed. All the pieces were small and could have been concealed in an overcoat. Quite an assortment of things are believed to be missing, including some hollow alligators...
...therefore, take this opportunity to reassure all such scribes. We have records to show that the pack train was serviced all the way with axle grease and the latest in horse shoes by our service stations, which same extend in an unbroken chain all the way from the Colombian border to Panama City (?). No doubt but that the trail blazed by Señor Divo is the forerunner of the Pan-American Highway through this jungle and we wish to announce that our Service Stations have gained a decided jump on the engineers by moving in prior to the survey...