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According to Radio Colombiana, Flight 52 left Bogota with a stopover in Medellin, the city known for its notorious cocaine cartel, en route to New York...
Something new in oil contracts was announced last week in Bogotá. Colombia's government-owned oil company, Ecopetrol (Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos), and a private U.S. oil firm, Cities Service Co., agreed to share costs and profits in developing the promising El Carare area, a 2,200,000-acre tract near the Magdalena River 120 miles north of Bogot...
Died. Henry Herschel Brickell, 62, writer (Cosecha Colombiana), editor (O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, 1941-51), and for two years (1944-46) assistant chief of the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation in charge of Latin America; by his own hand (carbon monoxide); in Ridgefield, Conn...
...steamers of the Naviera Colombiana, the biggest river operator, had been stuck in the mud for days; rain last week raised the river enough to float them. Meanwhile government dredges kept up their running battle with mudbanks and sandbars, but the dredges were badly outnumbered...
Profits & Losses. On top of these added costs, traders disgusted with shipping delays began switching from the Caribbean port of Barranquilla, at the Magdalena's mouth, to the Pacific port of Buenaventura, which is linked to Bogotá by train and truck. Result: Naviera Colombiana's operations, which once yielded a profit averaging a million and more pesos a year, showed a loss of 212,000 pesos ($123,000) in the first half...