Word: guianas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American Airways. As everyone expected, Pan American Airways, the sole bidder, last week was awarded the airmail contract from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana to Santos, Brazil-3,275 mi. The rate: $2 per mi. for 800 Ib. of mail; $1 a pound per 1,000 mi. for excess load...
...suing company was United Diamond Fields of British Guiana, Ltd., which charged that in common with all other diamond companies it had agreed to sell only to the Syndicate, that because of newly discovered fields the Syndicate had so lowered the price paid United Diamonds that the company was ruined. Included among the accusations was a charge of fraud. Settlement of the suit announced last month from the King's Bench awarded United Diamonds ?325,000 plus ?25,000 cost. Although the fraud charge was withdrawn, awarding of the sum to United Diamonds was tantamount to admitting that fraud...
...which William Patterson MacCracken is the new board chairman, is developing air stations from Tampa, through the West Indies and down the East coast of South America. Among the West Indies it needs port facilities on the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique; and in South America, in French Guiana. Due to the urgency of Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, a French government-subsidized line running from Buenos Aires to Natal, Brazil, the French government has forbidden NYRBA landing at or flying over French possessions, unless NYRBA carries mail for Aeropostale and gives the latter access to its airports...
...similar case once myself. Two Indians with me in British Guiana when we were about five days by canoe from anywhere, had their legs crushed and most certainly would have died within two days. I put them out of their suffering with morphine and was thanked by the other Indians in my party. . . . As to whether I intentionally killed them, that is something I don't care to discuss. I should rather let people draw their own conclusions...
Engaged. Philip Aaron ("Phil"') Edwards, 24, Negro, onetime captain of the New York University track team, joint holder of the American intercollegiate record for the half-mile and member of the 1928 Canadian Olympic Team at Amsterdam, the son of a British Guiana magistrate, to Miss Edith Margaret Oedelschoff, 19, German, of Weehawken...