Word: marta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Marta courtyard the Pope had welcomed a band of German, Swiss, Italian pilgrims. Scarcely had he begun to speak, however, when the glass front of a wall clock directly above jarred loose. Miraculous was the Pope's escape with only a small cut on one hand. Had not the clock's iron hands deflected the falling glass, injuries to His Holiness might have been grievous...
Latin Power. Cienfugeos, Guantanamo, Santa Marta, Manzanillo, Sancti-Spiritus, Curityba, Cordoba-strange and Spanish are these names of Latin-American cities. But familiar and North American is their electric light and power machinery, built by U. S. capital, U. S. engineering. They are among the 643 Mexican, Central American and South American communities (population more than 8.000.000) served by subsidiaries of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc., which is in turn a subsidiary of Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond & Share...