Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California is a complete cycle in the oil industry. It is the largest individual producer of crude oil in the U. S. and dominates the marketing of petroleum products along the west coast of both Americas. It is carrying on oil exploration work in Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina. It was originally incorporated in 1879 under the name of the Pacific Coast Oil Co.; changed its name to that of the Standard Oil Co. in 1906. All its stock the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey owned until 1911, when the Government forced the disintegration of that corporation...
...first paragraph allayed suspicion somewhat. It told of dentists, two U. S. dentists, itinerant in Ecuador. The next paragraph was rather dull description of the dentists. But, ha! another dentist! an Ecuadorian of no high ethics. He filled teeth with tin and copper instead of gold. Trembling with apprehension the parents read on, ons not a long storyd for reasons which were not explained had been allowed to accumulate the dust of a quarter century. It had not been written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less...
...yeast in the leaven of that expansive substance international entente. All fifty-four league members file their treaties, as they are made, in this collection. Most United States treaties, having for co-signatories various ones of the fifty-four, are already a part thereof. But United States treaties with Ecuador, Russia Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey and Mexico--such curious bed-fellows isolation throw together--will be duly added under the new arrangement...
...Brazil and Cuba; the Ministers Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Guatemala, Colombia, Panama, Jugoslavia, Costa Rica, Holland, Bolivia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Irish Free State, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Austria, Latvia, Egypt, Poland and Bulgaria; the Charges d'Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies-all sat down to a grand international feast from the Dolly Madison service in the state dining room...
...turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from the needle...