Word: punta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ranpura's side and H. M. S. Veteran was waiting in harbor to begin the second lap, when the treasure ship steamed into the Bay of Gibraltar last week in the midst of a stiff southeaster. The gale picked up the helpless Ranpura, swept it aground on Punta Mala ("Bad Spot") in the northwest corner of the bay. Three Admiralty tugs rushed" to the rescue, but their steel hawsers snapped repeatedly in the foaming seas...
...Patty's fourth major tournament of the winter. In the third, at Palm Beach last fortnight, she lost to "Maureen" in the final, after beating "Glenna" in the second round. The others, the Miami Biltmore Women's Championship and the Women's Champions' Tournament at Punta Gorda...
Spain is a member of the Pan-American Postal Union. Under that international convention U. S. letters carry only 2? postage to South and Central American countries. It costs no more to mail a letter from Duluth, Minn, to Punta Arenas. Chile, near Cape Horn than it does from Nogales, Ariz, across the street to Nogales, Mexico. Only South American exceptions to the 2? rate are Dutch and French Guiana, which, as non-members of -the Pan-American Postal Union, require 5? postage...
...president is Frank Clifford Lowry, chiefly known as a sugarman. About 50, neat and reserved, Mr. Lowry moves briskly. Much of his moving has been on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange of which he was once (1927-28) president. He is a director of several sugar companies including Punta Alegre and Warner. He is president of the latter company. He heads the sugar-broking firm of Lowry & Co., one of whose partners is Horace Havemeyer. Partner Have-meyer's father was once president of American Sugar Refining Co.. a company which in 1925 was reported to have offered...
This boy, the President explained, had been present when he addressed the citizens of La Punta, when he received a delegation of students from Arequipa and when he opened the San Marcos University a few days ago. "Well, what of it?" puzzled Deputies began to ask each other...