Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dumfounded, the police scuttled back for a conference with Governor Sir Geoffrey Northcote, who cabled London for instructions. When these came, the police set out armed to the teeth in the government steamer Pomeroon. The Girl Pat tried desperately to escape by sail, headed for Venezuela. For nearly three hours the two boats dodged about the ocean while hundreds of spectators lined the shore. Finally the Pomeroon rammed the Girl Pat's stern, sank her tender, forced her to surrender. Cursing loudly, Captain Osborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged off to jail. There the Inspector General gave...
Nine months of the year the northeast trade winds blow across the Gulf of Venezuela into Colombia, where the Andes taper off in three great wrinkles in the earth's crust. As the warm, moist trades are deflected upward by the first mountain range the air is cooled, releasing part of its burden of rain. In the tropical night an almost continuous electrical display can be seen along the mountain peaks, resembling successive flashes of sheet lightning. This phenomenon is called the "Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish...
...years since oil was first found oozing from the ground around masses of asphalt in the Maracaibo Basin, more than 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum have crossed the shallow bar that joins Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. For a few years Venezuela ranked second to the U. S. in oil production, though since 1931 Russia has crowded it into third place. In neighboring Colombia, where the oil oozed just as freely, only Standard Oil of New Jersey has so far made the tremendous investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields...
...Venezuela's counterpart of the French Bastille is Caracas' vast, dreadful Rotunda Prison, into one of whose small cells there were sometimes crammed as many as 34 shackled prisoners. Last week the Government which succeeded the long reign of implacable Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez removed the last political prisoner from the Rotunda to a new prison nearby. The Rotunda was opened as a museum piece of past tyrannies. The public was cordially invited to inspect its square quarter-mile of horrors...
...descent, had done quite well for himself as a hardware dealer on the island of St. Thomas. He sent little Camille to Paris to school, brought him back to the Islands to make an ironmonger of him. Camille Pissarro stuck it out until 1852, when he ran away to Venezuela to become an artist. Three years later he was in Paris and had discovered the painter whom above all others he wished to imitate. Kindly, aging Jean Baptiste Corot took the young Virgin Islander as a pupil...