Word: juan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan Campisteguy...
...country's principal boom 17000% in less than a decade! Still more interesting, if possible, is the fact, that Venezuela's stupendous oil tax revenues all pour into the Treasury of one man, an absolute dictator of 20 years' standing, the stern and venerable President Juan Vicente Gomez...
...both" (i.e., written musical comedy and joined the Catholic clergy), you will be interested to know that Father Riggs' two most recent literary ventures are a highly theological translation from the French just published by Macmillan-and a translation of Rostand's "The Last Night of Don Juan." The translation of Rostand, as yet unpublished, is as beautiful, subtle and polished as the theological translation is lucid and elevating...
...airplane Christopher Columbus. If she noticed that it was a Ford plane, she said nothing. It was supposed to have been a Fokker plane, the first of the Pan-American Airways Transport system, soon to open routes from Miami to Nassau, Havana, Camagüey (Cuba), San Juan, P. R. and, later, Mexico, Central and South America. The Fokker ship meant to have been christened Christopher Columbus had been cracked up the day before. The substitute Ford was leased...
...minutes last week Parisians watched one of Juan de la Cierva's autogyros (TIME, Oct. 1) hang stationary in the air. The feat was possible because the autogyro can keep in horizontal flight at the remarkably low forward speed of 25 miles per hour and because it was headed, during its last week's demonstration, into a wind of just about the same speed...