Word: paramaribo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foulest blow of this new Nazi in-fighting landed under the belly of the 8,3O9-ton Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, carrying 170 crew and 230 passengers for Paramaribo, Surinam. Coasting at midday about 16 miles off Harwich, England, through a calm, sunny sea, she ran into two mines which tore out her bottom, killed her captain and about 100 others, injured 200. Most of the passengers were German-Jewish refugees, scores of them children...
...last October, when Explorer William LaVarre said he believed the Georgia flyer alive, the Redfern rumors had grown to such proportions that the U. S. State Department ordered an investigation. The Consular Agent at Paramaribo, Netherlands Guiana, unearthed a Creole Catholic missionary named Melcherts, stationed at Drie Tabbetjes on the Tapanahoni River in the interior, who told the following story...
...four groups by last week had found nothing convincing to outsiders, were still plugging ahead, when there came an event which first blew the lid off the yarn, then clamped it back more confusingly than ever. In a Paramaribo newspaper appeared the tale of one Alfred Harred, newshawk and alleged member of an expedition to determine the boundary of British Guiana: "Art Williams, two Indians and I took off, landed on a tributary of the main Amazon . . . started to trek across the Tumuc-Humac Mountains. . . . After several days we came to a village where all Indians were completely nude...
...Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana...
...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...