Word: curagao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somehow, while hotfooting it from griddle to griddle around the world, catlike Philips managed to set up its U.S. war plants and to make money. For 1944 the American and British trusts, along with the Curagao company, reported net profits of $1.5 million...
...nation's wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...
Already attacks off the Venezuelan coast had temporarily stopped the flow of oil from Venezuelan fields to the refineries at Aruba and Curagao. This in itself was an Axis victory, for Venezuelan oil furnishes from one-half to two-thirds of all the aviation gasoline that the United Nations use. The continuing threat of Axis submarines could slow this traffic almost to a standstill, until an effective convoy system was put into effect...
Died. Jonkheer Hugo Loudon, 81, board chairman of the great Royal Dutch Oil Co.; in Wassenaar, German-occupied Netherlands. He remained in The Netherlands when the Germans invaded Holland, though the seat of his company was transferred to Curagao...
...week's end, Secretary of War Stimson hinted that "diplomatic steps" were being taken to assure adequate defense for the "southern anchor" of the new Atlantic defense line. Rumors flew that negotiations with The Netherlands Gov ernment in London were under way for base sites in Dutch Guiana. Curagao. It looked as if President Roosevelt might be getting ready to step from the wings with an announcement...