Word: guiana
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Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana...
...older than its youngest marshal (Petain), stopped briefly at Trinidad last week on the maiden Caribbean cruise of the French liner Colombie, was welcomed by British officials and most of the populace. Trinidad understood what brought him. A courier had just arrived from Cayenne, French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests. But French Guiana, as all the world knows, is also France's penal colony. Young Frenchmen wall...
...postage to South and Central American countries. It costs no more to mail a letter from Duluth, Minn, to Punta Arenas. Chile, near Cape Horn than it does from Nogales, Ariz, across the street to Nogales, Mexico. Only South American exceptions to the 2? rate are Dutch and French Guiana, which, as non-members of -the Pan-American Postal Union, require 5? postage...
...Talkie-talkie." To find furnishings for the new African Hall soon to be opened at the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, Dr. Morton C. Kahn led an expedition into South America. Almost 200 years ago, African slaves in Dutch Guiana revolted, went into the bush to establish an Africo-South American civilization. Today the tribes live in thatched huts, cut designs into their flesh. Cowrie shells from the East Indies are used to adorn amulets as in Africa. The tribes speak "talkie-talkie," a mixture of Dutch, English, Portuguese, French and African. The Boni tribe in French Guiana...
...nothing compared to the state of M. Andre Bouilloux La Font, managing director of France's Aeropostale, in Manhattan last week to work out with President Trippe troublesome details of their companies' routes in South America. (Pan American wants the privilege of a permanent base at Cayenne, French Guiana, where Aeropostale has exclusive flying rights.) M. La Font and his aides saw the newspaper story, rushed to the Chanin Building before even the Pan American office force had arrived, waited in an agitated huddle. President Trippe placated them, put in a hurry call for Technical Adviser Charles Augustus Lindbergh...