Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argentina. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela...
Died. Henry Lane Wilson, 76, Ambassador to Mexico during the 1910 revolution and the assassination of President Madero (1913); of pneumonia; in Indianapolis. Son of a U. S. Minister to Venezuela, grandson of the founder of Lafayette (Ind.). he published Lafayette's Journal (1882-85), turned lawyer-banker in Spokane, lost much of his fortune in the 1893 panic...
...days after Britain declared war in 1914 Winston Churchill jammed a bill through Parliament to buy control of Anglo-Persian for His Majesty's Government, so that His Majesty's ships might never fail for lack of bunker oil. Today only the U. S., Russia and Venezuela rank ahead of Persia in crude production. The bulk of the 45,000,000 bbl. annual output is tanked directly to Britain, Anglo-Persian having an agreement with Royal Dutch-Shell not to compete in the Orient...
...Oldtime prospectors plod the gullies of the Western States. Abandoned shafts have been reopened and assayed. Throughout the world jobless men have taken picks & pans and made off for the hills. Some of them have struck rich pay dirt. In Australia, Ecuador, the Rand, Chile, the Philippines, Mexico and Venezuela their luck has started minor gold rushes in recent months, mostly abortive...
Under the present Pews the Sun has been managed carefully. Lack of publicity more than anything else has kept it to the background in the industry's news. When new fields have been opened, Sun has gone quietly about acquiring leases. Its holdings in Venezuela come to hundreds of thousands of acres. In the East Texas field it owns about 7% of the total acreage. Eight tank steamers and seven motorships transport its oil from Texas to Marcus Hook, about 17 mi. southwest of Philadelphia. There Sun owns 525 acres upon which stands a large refinery...