Word: paramaribo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anne Morrow Lindbergh unknowingly last week came into part of her heritage. Ambassador & Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow created a $1,000,000 trust fund for her benefit. Meanwhile her husband was flying her with President & Mrs. Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways back from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (TIME, Sept. 30) to the U. S., by way of Central America. Later this month, the Lindberghs intend to explore by air Mayan ruins among Yucatan forests. In the office of Colonel Lindbergh's publisher* last week was the manuscript of his new book, We Fly, in which he sets down...
...America President Juan Terry Trippe & wife. Technical Adviser Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife, and others, flew from Miami for Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, by way of Florida and the Antilles. They were to return to the U. S. by way of northern South America and Central America. Mrs. Lindbergh asked fellow passengers to call her Anne. She calls her husband Augustus. Col. Lindbergh reported progress frequently by radio, beginning his messages "Lindbergh, pilot...
...American Airways sent a survey plane from San Juan, Porto Rico, to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (on South America's north coast), by way of Guadeloupe (French possession), Martinique (French possession), Georgetown (British Guiana). That is the mail route which U. S. Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover last week authorized to go into operation next month...
...drivers, and bit by tarnished bit the price of attempt at freedom could be bought. Five hundred francs would bribe a bushman to paddle one convict across to the jungle, and buy a few days' scanty provisions. Michel achieved the jungle, staggered and bruised his way through to Paramaribo, only to be arrested as he tried to board a Dutch freighter, and shipped summarily back to an extra twist of the screw...
...crossed the Maroni River to Albina, the frontier of Dutch Guiana, where he visited the villages of the Carid Indians and the primitive bush negroes. With the negroes, he travelled by canoe through the heart of the tropical forests of Dutch Guiana to the Cottoca River, and on to Paramaribo, the end of his trip. His speech tonight will be full of reminiscences of his stirring experiences on this expedition...