Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than once find irritating in the course of its 439 leisurely pages. Narrator Spenlove-McFee tells his tortuous tale in his own way and cannot be hurried. While the passengers of S. S. Camotan, on a Caribbean pleasure-cruise, fretted at not being allowed to go ashore at Puerto Balboa because a revolution had just broken out there, Chief Engineer Spenlove entertained some of them with a tale. The day before. Puerto Balboa's harbormaster, Capt. Frank Fraley, had blown out his brains. That was the end of the story. Narrator Spenlove told his audience the beginning and middle...
Spanish policemen beat twelve citizens insensible in Madrid's octagonal Puerto, del Sol (Sun "Square") one day last week. The twelve had shouted, "Down with the Church...
...from Nicaragua roared two U. S. Marine planes carrying medical relief. They had a hard time landing in the rubble. Out of Colon sped the U. S. cruiser Rochester. The gunboat Sacramento set out at once from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and the minesweeper Swan steamed up from Trujillo, Honduras, with food, water, bandages. Out of Kingston, Jamaica, raced H. M. S. Danae to help her own people...
Four months ago Zoologist Parke Hardy Struthers of Syracuse University led a group of U. S. scientists and one 19-year-old Boy Scout out of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela and into the mountains of Merida. Last week they were back in Manhattan with an assortment of rare or hitherto unknown birds and animals, including eight Andean dogs which bark like a cat's yowling, a little, spotted ocelot, foxes, iguanas, turkeys, macaws, lovebirds and 15 parrots...
...Fruit has a $13,000,000 investment in northeastern Nicaragua, including 180,000 acres of banana and timber land and 65 mi. of railroad. Seven of its employes had been murdered. Fifty thousand "stems" (bunches) of bananas were rotting for lack of transportation. Inland plantations were paralyzed. Activities at Puerto Cabezas were suspended. Vainly in Washington did William Cyprien Dufour, Standard Fruit's attorney, plead for military protection in land. Washington Irving Moss, Standard's chairman, telegraphed urgently to the White House from New Orleans. When Secretary Stimson announced withdrawal, Standard officials in New Orleans expressed "profound disappointment," predicted that...