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...Bermuda and all other islands in the West Indies now owned by European nations (the Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, Curaçao, Guadeloupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Brotherly Greed | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...year history the American Bible Society has issued a third of a billion Bibles or portions of the Scriptures. They have gone to over 50 countries, been printed in more than 200 languages or dialects. New last year: an edition in Papiamento, Spanish dialect for Curaçao; in Gbéa for French Equatorial Africa; in Kijita for Tanganyika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Testaments for Castaways | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Foreign Competition | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Shells at Aruba | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Shells at Aruba | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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