Word: venezuelan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ambition. In Spartanburg, S.C., a Venezuelan Boy Scout neared the end of an 18,000-mile hike, said he planned to take a plane home...
...pertinent fact about last week's report was its treatment of the oil shortage as a hemisphere problem, with hemispheric cures. It blandly pointed out, for example, that there are plenty of Italian, German and Danish tankers idle in this hemisphere-"aggregating about 50,000 deadweight tons in Venezuelan ports and 80,000 deadweight tons in Mexico-it should also be noted that there are about 100,000 deadweight tons of French flag tankers at Martinique." These ships (in addition to 50,000 Axis tons in U.S. ports), said the oilmen, would help the situation greatly if used...
...Venezuela's second constitutional election in decades, tall, massive General Isaias Medina Angarita, 43, Minister for War, was picked for President by the Venezuelan Congress over Rómulo Gallegos Freire, Minister of Education. With a five-year term in prospect, General Medina, to celebrate, married Señorita Irma Feliola in a modest ceremony at Caracas, five days before his inauguration this week...
...harbor of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, four tankers, three of them Italian and one German, burst into flame before Venezuelan officials could seize them. Three other Italian ships were boarded and seized. As the tankers blazed offshore, threatening the oil-soaked docks, angry crowds rushed from the harbor to the center of town, set fire to the German-owned Gambrinus Hotel...
...shirt can neither hide nor retreat").* General Garibaldi resents being called a soldier of fortune, explains that the only time he ever fought against his convictions was in the Boer War, when he joined a mounted column under Kitchener. At 23 he was leading 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, held the title of Citizen-Colonel-&-Commander -of -the -Artillery -of -the -Army-of-the-Orient. Faced with mutiny, he shot every tenth man in one company...