Word: compa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their city overcoats whipping their legs, and looked south for 50 miles over peaceful country. On the way down they met three women dressed in black. "When we passed we saw that they were poor peasants; one young, one middleaged, one old. They smiled and said, 'Salud! Salud Compañeros!' The oldest said nothing...
About eight years ago the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas, a Buenos Aires shoe company, was lucky enough to sign up a 39-year-old artist named Florencio Molina Campos. The calendars which Artist Campos has been turning out every year for the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas are highly prized rarities in the U. S. and may well be collectors' items when the Compañia's last shoes are worn to dust. Last week this distant reputation materialized in Manhattan in the form of an intent, sardonic, cigar-waving Latin and about 40 paintings...
...Last week, however, a Lockheed Electra of Compañia Mexicana de Aviación, subsidiary of Pan American Airways, crashed and burned with nine aboard in a jungle swamp near Vera Cruz...
...sale of his records. His widow still gets about $200 per month in royalties. His plaintive voice still yodeled last week from honkytonks in Port-au-Prince, cantinas in Colon, dives in Sidney. Lately Jimmie Rodgers' name was given additional immortality. Compañia Vinícola Hispano Americano of Panama City put a Jimmie Rodgers rum on the market...
...Compañía Chileña de Electricidad, Limitada, local subsidiary of Ebasco, returned a soft answer. In an open letter to Santiago's three most important papers they wrote that they were surprised and shocked at President Ibañez's protest, the more so since the power contract in every stage of its development had been inspected and approved by congressional and technical commissions "composed of Chileans of high repute," finally that it had been enthusiastically approved by none other than Señor Francisco Lobos, Director of the Electrical Services of the Republic. However...