Word: cura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crumb popped into Pan Am's mouth: one of the five companies favored was Compañia Nacional Cubana de Aviacion, which Pan Am owns. The other two companies: Expreso Aereo Inter-Americano, S.A., for service between Miami and Havana; and Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM), Miami to Curaçao and Aruba...
...three tankers in all, damaged a fourth later off Curaçao. Its shore-aimed fire, directed at Standard Oil Co.'s big refinery, did no damage.' But the Axis had carried the war into the Caribbean, only 750 miles from the Panama Canal...
...token raid. Though Aruba and Curaçao are flyspecks on the map, their refineries are two of the largest in the world. Only last week the State Department announced that U.S. troops had been sent to garrison the islands at the invitation of The Netherlands Government...
...Looking about for another point of attack, we see Curaçao and Aruba in South America. . . . To these points have been extended the pipelines draining the great South American oilfields. . . . Great refineries are located there, out in the ocean, where, as it was described to me by a man who had reported it to the President, they stand out like sore thumbs-defenseless, a standing invitation to attack...
From the deck of a ship entering the harbor, Willemstadt in Curaçao looks like a toy Dutch town, its well-scrubbed houses bright in the vivid tropic sunlight. To 79 men, women and children hanging over the rails of the Spanish liner Cabo de Hornos last week, Curaçao seemed very beautiful. It looked like heaven to them, for they had been on a long voyage through hell...