Word: colonias
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...Great Dictator. Two big river boats were refitted to handle mobs of Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) who made the two-hour trip across the Plata to see the picture. One steamship company offered a special excursion, including a round trip over to the town of Colonia, dinner after the show. Some 100,000 Argentines were expected to see the picture in Uruguay...
...Colonia! Braeil", Professor Haring, Harvard 2, History...
...efficient as any now joining these two cities. At Bay Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled on their oilskins and went down the beach through a driving rain to drag in the monstrous sea-serpent of twisted copper, brass, guttapercha and "permalloy" brought in to them by the cable-layer Colonia. The Colonia then plowed off eastward to splice a deep-sea section with the other shore end at Penzance. In August she will lay a final section from Bay Roberts to Manhattan...
Cable-laying and tending is a deep sea art. The Colonia is continuously on service, in season and out, finding breaks and mending them. So carefully is each mile of cable charted that little time is lost grappling up the line in two or three miles of ocean. But most breaks occur in shallows. The cable will be scarred or ground in two by icebergs; snagged by fishing trawls; ravaged by boring worms. Once a whale's corpse was found looped in the line. Once a shark's tooth was embedded at a break...
...precise rectangular criss-cross of streets that is Mexico City popped myriads of firecrackers, detonated cannon crackers as bulkily potent as an elephant's wrist. From the oozy slums half sliming into Lake Texcoco rose a clatter of revelry that carried even to aristocratic patios of the Colonia Juarez. Mexico's 115th Independence Day (Sept. 16) had arrived with the dealth-dealing rejoicings that marked an early Rooseveltian U.S. Fourth of July...