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...Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew to a 20-room catacomb of high-ceilinged workshops, spare of furniture, full of great lumps of stone, clay, plaster. One piece, a huge statue of James Monroe, ordered and paid for by a Venezuelan President who lost his job unexpectedly, stood around for 30 years until the Piccirillis gave it to the State of Virginia. On another piece the Christian Science Church paid 20 years' storage charges...
...soon as the light came. Two companies of soldiers, sailors and marines took up safe positions and blazed interminably back. Toward nine Tony decided to make a break for shore and yacht. Covered by the machine gun fire of Senora O'Halloran, he took one companion, an oldtime Venezuelan adventurer, and ran firing toward Batista's men. The two fell battered with bullets almost at once. As he died, Tony's face stiffened into a strange choirboy grimace of joy. The soldiers arrested Senora O'Halloran and ten other friends of Tony...
...seasons, Mr. Kidder has been working in the Venezuelan area, at Lake Valencia, 70 miles west of the capital, Caracas, and among the caves of the Andes. Two distinct cultures have been unearthed and there seems to be evidence of a third...
...purposes of the expeditions is to link the undetermined chronologies of these cultures with those of the Antilles and Columbia. This is a difficult task, since little is known about Venezuelan archeology. The Spanish Conquest of this region took place later than it did in other parts of the New World, and the records of the explorers, the only written material available to the archeologists, are woefully inadequate...
...this record dictatorship is not all due to the personal virtue and public frugalities of Meritorious Gomez. In 1917 oil began to gush in Venezuela in unbelievable quantities. Last year more oil than anywhere else outside the U. S. and Russia spouted from Venezuelan wells, and every gallon of it pays a 7% to 10 % royalty to the Government. Cheap to produce, most of this oil is drilled on the shores and in the bottom of a long arm of the sea known as Lake Maracaibo, is carried to refineries in Dutch Curagao and Aruba by a fleet of special...