Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many this appeared as peace without victory. Standard Oil and Dutch Shell face each other in nearly every oil-producing country in the world, in the fields of Mexico and Central America, in Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Persia, the Dutch East Indies, in the U. S. itself.* The Shell Union Corp., American subsidiary of Dutch Shell, has assets listed at $348,129,212, itself produces more oil than the great enemy of its parent company. The war goes on, though quietly. Major battles, with all war correspondents on hand, are perhaps ended...
...Bantam Roosevelt of Peru" is a nickname sometimes applied to President Augusto B. Leguia, not in disparagement but as descriptive praise. Last fortnight the new U. S. Ambassador to Peru, famed Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime Ambassador to Spain (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925), was received at Lima by President Leguia, who said, in the course of a dynamic address...
...Peru understands these things and has ever been faithful to the friendship uniting her with the United States. Ah, Senor Moore! Friendship, is it not worth more than gold...
...sold two tabloids, New York Daily Mirror and Boston Advertiser, to Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, for a price which was said to be dirt cheap. (It was even hinted that this was a "dummy" sale and that Hearst privately remains the financial angel of the two tabloids...
...Orange Free State. The mounting just completed is a fine specimen of the telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae, and with its new modern mounting it will continue on two especially significant problems--first, the survey of the super-system of galaxies known as the spiral or extra-galactic nebulae, and second...