Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plunge. The insurance companies, which usually shy away from foreign oil investments, jumped in with both feet. Nine of the biggest U.S. companies and one Canadian snapped up the biggest industrial bond issue ever offered. Shell Caribbean Petroleum Co. of N.J. (a Royal Dutch-Shell subsidiary) announced that the insurance companies would buy $250 million worth of its 20-year, 4% bonds. As security for the loan, Shell Caribbean put up 8,800,000 shares (or two-thirds) of the stock of Shell Union Oil Corp., Shell's U.S. subsidiary (the stock's market value last week...
...that Arevalo was making jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...
Lend-Lease. It was not only Guatemala's President Arevalo who was prodding Tacho Somoza last week. There was also a variegated group of political exiles, self-appointed enemies of tropical dictators, who called themselves the Caribbean Legion. Last spring they had flown at least 21 planeloads of arms from Guatemala right around Tacho's Chinese wall and landed them in Costa Rica-where they helped General José Figueres install a government that bears no love for Somoza...
...Dominican colonels and generals have been drilling 150 Nicaraguan youths on Figueres' Rio Conejo farm, just outside San José. For Figueres (who knows that Costa Rican counter-revolutionaries are also drilling on Tacho's side of the border), the situation has been a little embarrassing. The Caribbean Legion and its friends have been looking for a way to get on with their business without leaving Figueres on the spot...
...Kiss your husband one last kiss he can take around the world before you give him another . . . Now I'm going to give you a big geographical kiss that'll bring you good luck and keep you warm in the Aleutians and keep you cool in the Caribbean...