Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After virtually saying in so many words that oil-rich Venezuelan Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez will continue to sell Italy all the oil she wants, Venezuelan Delegate Cesar Zumeta announced for the record that his country is cooperating with the League. Said Venezuela's oily Cesar: "My country regards it as essential that the League should take steps to settle disputes by other means than force, and it is in this sense that Venezuela is cooperating...
Motoring in a Ford through Venezuela from the seacoast to the Andes, Alfred Kidder, II '33 has discovered valuable archeological material in that hitherto untouched region...
...advanced as that of the Incas or the Mayas. There was no metal known and the development of stone implements and pottery was advanced. The people lived in lake dwellings, and practiced agriculture. It is from these lake dwellings and similar ones along the coast that Venezuela took its name. Columbus, seeing the houses in the water, called the land "Little Venice...
...backward crown colony is British Guiana, sprawling just east of Venezuela over an area of South American forests, rivers and seacoast almost as large as Great Britain. But in 1856 British Guiana was even more backward than it is today. Georgetown, its capital, did not then boast two 40-bed hotels. That year the colonists ran out of stamps, printed a small issue on a newspaper press to tide them over until the arrival of a shipment of regular stamps from England. Only one stamp of that issue is known to exist today. It is the most valuable stamp...
...Aged 25, he was taken into partnership in the mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into the promotion of the 49-mi. Panama R.R., whose eastern terminus was called Aspinwall,* and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. which linked it to both sides of the continent, was regarded by his associates as a bold speculation for so sober-sided a financier as William Aspinwall. Promoter Aspinwall...