Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters in baseball, football, basketball and track), the Negro Bacharach Giants offered him $50 a weekend. That was the end of school as far as Campy was concerned. After he left the Bacharach Giants, he went with the Baltimore Elite Giants, backstopped in the eastern U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba in the next few years...
Last week a new and very different regional I.L.O. convened in Montevideo. In the three years since Mexico City, Latin American labor movements have pretty well repudiated Communist leaders. Of the 280 delegates and advisers at the meeting (from all countries except Peru, Venezuela, Honduras and Paraguay), Communists numbered so few that they even had trouble making much noise. Lombardo Toledano was absent...
With the Communists silenced and Peronistas taking it easy, Romualdi attacked hemispheric military dictatorships. He brought out letters, documents, underground newspapers and lists of prisoners as evidence that military regimes in both Peru and Venezuela had jailed workers and smashed unions. Under pressure of U.S. Government delegates, headed by Ambassador to Uruguay Ellis O. Briggs, he withheld a resolution of condemnation, but got through a statement demanding I.L.O. investigations in Peru and Venezuela...
Later, he bought the Jonker diamond, recognized as the world's fourth biggest uncut stone † ; and the President Vargas, third biggest, and Venezuela's smaller Libertador. He paid $2,100,000 for the three, cut them into 45 smaller stones and sold the lot for nearly...
...Appointment Only. A big buyer of African stones, Winston now mines diamonds in Venezuela, employs 400 cutters and polishers in Amsterdam, New York City and Puerto Rico, grosses $20 million a year. In his Manhattan showrooms, browsing is not encouraged; jewels are usually shown only by appointment. The average sale: $5,000. Winston also turns out engagement rings which Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sells for as little as $37.50, and makes jewels for some 750 U.S. retail stores. Winston keeps track of every gem in his store at all times. If a single stone is mislaid, no one leaves...