Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Algonac, 13 are destined to zoom over foreign waters. Scandinavians use them as a means of commuting among the fjords and inlets. Many are shipped to Australia. The only practical means of travel in much of the South American tropical zone is the network of jungle waterways. Colombian explorers and the Ford rubber plantations in Brazil use Chris-Craft sedans. While Chris Smith chews and whittles in the Algonac postoffice, his boats are being sold by dealers all over the U. S. and in 20 foreign countries...
...audience wandered through the museum, marveled at the "Hall of the East" in which 100 ritual lights burned before a Tibetan shrine. The audience included turbanned Indians, grave Chinese, eager U. S. intellectuals, a brown woman with gems fastened in her nose, a plump white woman wearing a jingling Colombian Indian costume. Kermit Roosevelt dropped his eyes against curious stares. Natacha Rambova, white turbanned and weighted with gold invited the avid to her studio. Esoteric prattlers shook the Professor's hands and looked for cheese wafers to nibble. There were no refreshments...
...SCADTA (Colombian-German) received Chilean permission to extend its lines from Colombia to Arica, Chile. Thus SCADTA will parallel part of the Pan-American west coast route...
...north coast is Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transposes Aereos, commonly called SCADTA. Head of SCADTA is redoubtable Dr. Peter P. von Bauer, an Austrian who has become a Colombian citizen. He is the aeronautical yes-no man of the country. Whoever wishes to touch Colombia with aviation lines must man fully deal with him. Pan-American traded rights with him in order to complete its Caribbean line from Panama to Port of Spain, Trinidad. He demanded and received the right to run SCADTA planes from Barranquilla, Colombia, to Panama...
Though the meeting closed on a note of good-fellowship, it was rumored that Sir Henri, watchful of Shell,* U. S., Mexican, Colombian and particularly Venezuelan interests, had at one point seemed quite unable to reconcile himself to the A. P. I. program. After the close of the conference he announced, however, that he would give the movement his "100% co-operation." He added that he was at the meeting in an unofficial capacity as observer and A.P.I. guest...