Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomatist, Her Majesty did not have many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...
...welter of Pan-American projects, studies, conferences. An Inter-American cultural conference ended on a note of far-reaching program-planning. In Guatemala City, Treasury representatives of the 21 Republics met to ponder financial ways & means. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...
...millions of South Americans the greatest man who ever lived was Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacio, liberator of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama. Simón Bolívar (pronounced See-moan Bow-lee-var) has inspired litanies like those to the saints. His tomb at Caracas-the "Pantheon"-is almost as much a religious as a national shrine. Venezuela's President Contreras reputedly goes there to pray...
From his young manhood, no prophet could have predicted Bolívar's future. Heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Venezuela (his childhood income was around $20,000 a year), this slight, hot-tempered, handsome young Creole aristocrat was the pampered darling of his family, at 17 began his conquests in the salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made...
...example last fortnight got orders totaling $3,000,000 for DC-3s from American Airlines, Chicago & Southern Air Lines, and Braniff Airways, recently sold $3,000,000 worth of big DC-4s to United Air Lines. Lockheed has an order for $180,000 worth of commercial planes for Venezuela-possibly a precursor of other big South American orders...