Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around New York, appeared filling stations selling Shell gasoline. Marketed by Shell Union Oil Corp., which, although a Royal-Dutch-Shell subsidiary, is third largest U. S. oil producer, Shell Gasoline represented foreign competition in a particularly acute form. Most of the Shell Gasoline has been imported from Venezuela whence it can be sold in the U. S. at prices difficult for U. S. oilmen to duplicate...
Lastly the Queen spoke with emotion, nay indignation, of Curacao-not the liqueur but the island where it was invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists...
...Confirmed the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., to be Governor of Porto Rico, of John Work Garrett to be Ambassador to Italy, of Gerrit John Diekema and George Thomas Summerlin to be Ministers to the Netherlands and to Venezuela, respectively...
...Cumana, Venezuela, last week, citizens smoked their evening cigarets along the water front, striving for a breath of cool air. A little tramp steamer, her name roughly painted out, chugged into the harbor, noisily dropped her mud hook. Small boats were put out, rowed ashore. Boxes and crates were landed on the beach. From Cumana's fort an officer watched for a few minutes till he saw the fat barrel of a machine gun lifted out of a crate. Then hastily he threw away his cigaret, sounded the alarm...
...braying of bugles, the pad of running feet. Rifles banged and flashed, bullets bored the air. Ragged government troops and excited revolutionists darted through streets and round corners, stooping, firing, running. On the bridge of the Falke stood Capt. Tipplitt, just appointed "First Admiral of the Revolutionary Government of Venezuela." Waving an automatic pistol he forced the third officer of the Falke and a lifeboat crew to row ashore with more guns, more ammunition. On the beach the third officer was killed. Killed too was General Chalbaud, leader of the rebels, and General Emilio Fernandez, defender of Cumana. Minor generals...