Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Building in Washington, have lent renewed interest to a project often dreamed of. The desire is to provide through railroad facilities from Manhattan to Buenos Aires-a distance of about 10,000 miles. About 7,000 miles of the route is already built, including the line from Manhattan to Guatemala. Most of the existing gaps which must be filled to complete the route lie in the northern countries of South America-Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. The representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the U. S. are the moving spirits in the enterprise, and their aim will be to urge...
Manager Bickford of the University track team announced directly after the Intercollegiates Saturday that Stanley de Jongh Osborne '26 of Guatemala City, Guatemala, had won the eight weeks' competition for the second assistant managership of track. Edward Walker Marshall '26 of Portland, Maine, was appointed second assistant manager of the cross country team. The third position, that of second assistant interscholastic manager, went to Floyd Tomkins Gibson '26 of Philadelphia...
...recent meeting of the Andover Club, officers were elected for the coming year, as follows: President, Robert Gray Allen '26 of Andover; Vice-President, Richard Looke Hapgood '25 of Cambridge; Secretary-Treasurer, Stanley de Jongh Osborne '26 of Guatemala City, Guatemala...
Hookworm work was carried on during the year in Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Saint Lucia, Trinidad, Porto Rico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Salvador, Colombia, Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Australia, Fiji, Siam, Ceylon, Mainland India, Mauritius...
...line was started by C. P. Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific. Today the system includes a trunk line of 597 miles, with 58 miles of sidings in Guatemala and Salvador. It is planned to construct about 100 miles of new roads from Zacapa to Santa Ava, Guatemala, and to extend the lines to connect with properties of American corporations. With the 100-mile gap completed, the road will furnish a direct route from the east coast across Central America to Touseca Bay on the Pacific shore, where the U. S. Government already has concessions for the establishment...