Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roaring westward over the South Atlantic flew a big white biplane, carrying Uruguayan Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, French Lieutenant Leon Challes. They were trying to fly from Seville to Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long the flyers' 1,400 gallons of gas, 50 gallons of oil, would keep them up, figured on 50 hours. At last, many hours behind schedule, the plane crashed near Maracuja, Rio do Norte, Brazil. Both flyers were slightly injured, the plane wrecked...
...only U. S. company which rivals this British monster of communications is I. T. & T. This company started out to become another A. T. & T., but in foreign parts. It brought together telephone systems in Cuba, Porto Rico, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil. Then able Colonel Sosthenes Behn went a step further. He added to I. T. & T. first the All American Cables, then the Mackay System (Postal Telegraph, Commercial Cables, Mackay Radio). Now he does business by telephone, cable and radio in most parts of the world. He has arranged to acquire, if and when Congress permits...
...vivendi between it and the U. S. Australia complained of the wool duties; Denmark, of those on hides and skins; Italy, on canned tomatoes, olive oil; Mexico, on fresh vegetables; Austria on hats, shoes, glue, tapestries; the Netherlands, on diamonds, glassware, brick; Switzerland, on watches, embroideries; Persia, on rugs; Uruguay, on wool, meats, hides; Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Honduras, on bananas, coffee...
Senator Harrison: "Senator Smoot's inconsistencies ... a sham and a pretense. ... As a matter of fact . . . Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Norway, Greece, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Persia, Uruguay, Mexico and Honduras protested as governments. . . . Those protests are general and significant in character...
...Behns already operate communication systems in Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Spain, Argentine, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay. Last week they announced that I. T. & T. had secured rights for the operation of wireless telephone and telegraph in Peru and Colombia. With this acquisition, the entire west coast of South America and the east coast south of Sao Paulo, Brazil, found its wireless industry in U. S. hands...