Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peons on Tractors. The cowboy was not the only Venezuelan countryman to get Government help. Determined to share the country's million-barrel-a-day oil wealth as widely as possible, President Betancourt pressed schemes for gradual land redistribution, a $6,000,000 irrigation program, and 148 new rural schools. To shore up food production and boost rural living standards (most Venezuelan peons get about 1,200 calories a day), he pinned his hopes on mechanization. The U.S. State Department backed this program by putting Venezuela high on the Latin delivery list, right after Mexico and Brazil. This week...
Died. Dr. Alfredo Machado-Hernandez, 58, Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States, onetime Venezuelan Minister of Finance and his country's representative at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco; after a long illness; in Washington...
...musty chambers of Lima's venerable Gran Hotel Bolívar, over bourbon-and-sodas, representatives of the world's major oil companies also studied the supposedly secret Curtice plan. They grumbled at proposed royalties that would resemble the prevailing Venezuelan scale of 16⅔%. Such percentages, they said, were fair enough in proven fields like Venezuela, but high for Peru, where exploration costs are probably the highest in the world and where the trans-Andean pipeline to bring oil out to the west coast might cost...
...Teresa Carreno, a Venezuelan, was the foremost woman pianist of the early igoos. *For Carnegie Hall, $565; manager's fee, $150; advertising, mailing and printing, $540; tax on 250 free tickets, $110; piano moving and tuning...
...last week granted full recognition to the revolutionary Venezuelan regime. So did most of the Hemisphere's other republics. At home, most Venezuelans were enthusiastic about their new, liberal, democratic Government...