Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXVIII. Reciprocity

Collection:: Economics Books

RECIPROCITY 357 States without success. Finally a German raised the money in Hamburg and now every thing about the line from the electrical in stallation to the motorman and his uniform is “Made in Germany.” Being the first and only underground road in Latin America it was written about and talked of everywhere, and at all times the Germans got credit for the enterprise and were well advertised as efficient and wonderful engineers. This was another opportunity lost to us. Before the European War started a syndi cate of English, French and Germans had agreed to expend $200,000,000 in Colombia building railways and in making the Magda lena River, the only highway to the capital at Bogota, navigable at all seasons of the year. Due to present hostilities they had to abandon the project. The terms offered by Colombia were excellent, including 5 per cent, interest on the capital and the further provision that the government would ultimately within a specified period take over the road, paying an

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