Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle with the other ports would be hard, that the job of moving into the mainstream of modern life would not be easy. But they had big plans. A fine new hotel set on a sand beach was already helping to establish Cartagena as a tourist center. The Great Colombian Fleet, established jointly by Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, had just gone into operation with eight newly purchased ships; soon the vessels would bring cargoes and tourists...
...along the West Coast, hunger was South America's own preoccupation. Pointing up the irony West Coast people saw in Herbert Hoover's food-hunting trek, a ragged, famished youngster in a Colombian cartoon begged for "a penny, madam, for the poor little European children who are so hungry!" Colombians, crimped by their ever-present transport problem, were forced to fly beef to their upland capital. At first they offered Hoover only coffee; later they considered relinquishing 8,000 tons of wheat promised by Canada. Ecuador, usually short on wheat, had a bumper rice crop...
...year-old bachelor Dr. Gabriel Turbay, had held practically every office except the presidency, could debate and orate in the most admired fashion, but had the political misfortune of being born (in Colombia) of Syrian parents. His detractors called him "el Turco." He had the backing of the powerful Colombian Confederation of Workers...
...independent Liberal, Dr. Jorge Eliécar Gaitan, a rabble-rousing labor lawyer, was so far from the elegant Colombian political tradition that he perspired when he talked, mussed his hair, and even ripped off his collar after the first hour. No one knew what his popular support was, except that it lay in the unwashed social stratum tapped so successfully by Juan...
With two Liberal candidates in the field, the Conservatives stood their best chance of regaining power since they lost it in 1930 by just such a division. Their nominee: coffee-rich Mariano Ospina Pérez, whose uncle and grandfather had been Colombian Presidents. Put up at the last minute by wily old Conservative Leader Laureano Gomez, ultra-respectable Candidate Ospina Perez had shrewdly sat tight in Bogota, made a few well-bred radio speeches, and waited for the divided Liberals to knock themselves...