Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that jungle-covered spot of northern South America, where Venezuela, British Guiana and Brazil touch each other angularly, is Mt. Roraima, famed among travelers and explorers. It is a huge wall of red rock that rises, like a ruddy tree trunk, 1,500 ft. sheer above the surrounding plateau and altogether some 8,500 ft. above sea level. It seems unscalable...
From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...
...Bogota he soared upward to the east. Fogs blotted his landmarks. Once dodging beneath the clouds he noticed a pair of antelope and dipped close to the earth to race their frightened flight. Soon he lost his way; sooner again he found it and sank to safety at Maracay, Venezuela. He motored to nearby Caracas, shook hands, gave thanks for fervent reception, listened to Spanish speeches, prepared to hop to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands...
Costes and Lebrix are ambassadors of French good will. Pushed 2,700 miles over the South Atlantic by a humming Hispano-Suiza motor they have worked their way slowly to and from South American cities, guests for the glory of France. Irregularly northward bound they will stop at Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, U. S. cities, eventually Manhattan...
When, in July, oil production in Venezuela surpassed that in Mexico (5,480,204 barrels against 5,235,792 barrels) the matter seemed probably fortuitous. Last week's information that in August Venezuela again surpassed Mexico (5,-290,807 barrels against slightly more than 5,000,000 barrels) definitely ranked Venezuela as the third largest oil yielding country, exceeded only by the U. S. and Russia. The largest U. S. corporation working Venezuelan fields is the Lago Oil & Transport Co. (subsidiary of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co.); larger than Lago is Venezuelan Oil Concessions Ltd. (subsidiary of Royal Dutch...