Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given a 6?-per-hr. raise. Reason: nearly 100 Electras have been sold in the U. S., Rumania, Poland, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico and England...
Devil Montanez started his professional career four years ago, when he was 18. Eager to see the world, he sailed for South America, stayed there long enough to become champion of Venezuela. Weary of beating humans, he decided bulls were more his style, set out to become a torero. Bullfight season in Caracas, Venezuela starts with the famed "race" for novice bullfighters in which bulls, being chased through the streets to the bull ring by mounted picadors, are harassed by neophyte toreros all trying to reach the arena last, i.e., closest to the bulls. Devil Montanez won the race...
...countries have been added to the list of nations which Harvard will represent in the session on March 12 and 13. In addition to Poland, the chief country to be represented, delegations of six Harvard men each will be sent from Esthonia, Honduras, Iraq, Lativia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela...
Arriving at Brooklyn's Public School No. 153, where playmates were bringing Christmas gifts to their teachers, 8-year-old Alonso Romero, son of Mexican Ambassador to Venezuela Dr. Miguel Alonso Romero, presented his teacher with a 2½-carat diamond ring. The teacher had Alonso and the ring taken to the Sheepshead Bay police station where Alonso explained he had found it on the sidewalk outside his home. Worth $900, it was identified as one recently reported missing...
...year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen to all three at once, copies of the formula are cached...