Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persia, at 31,845,000 barrels last year, showed almost double its 1921 output, and both the Dutch East Indies at 21,000,000 barrels and Rumania at 13,296,000 barrels showed considerably increased output. Venezuela, which produced only 1,4333,000 barrels in 1921, has developed very rapidly, last year attaining a production of 9,500,000 barrels...
...success; a Women's String Quartet was acclaimed, in Manhattan, in 1897. There have been innumerable famed women composers, instrumental virtuosos, of every nationality-Clara Schumann, wife of the great German composer, Robert Schumann; Mrs. Chazal, English composer, pianist; Carlotta Ferrari, foremost woman composer of Italy; Teresa Carreiia, Venezuela. Ethel Leginska has frequently been given public attention when she conducted orchestras (TIME, Jan. 19). A woman, Saint Cecelia, is the patron saint of Music. At all these notable women, male musicians have sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started...
Before returning to the U. S., the General will visit Uraguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba...
Died. Cipriano Castro, 62, one-time dictator of Venezuela; in San Juan, Porto Rico, from hemorrhage of the stomach. In 1890 his neighbors sent him, part Negro, part Indian, to Congress. He bought him a pair of patent leather boots. Boots, however, were his abomination; and each time that he went to Congress he was wont to take them off and place them under his desk until time for leaving came around...
...transferred his field of activity to South America where he made extensive explorations. His discoveries during the next three years in Patagonia and Venezuela enabled him to make valuable collections which he later gave to the American Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of the University...