... lights of the refinery, looking from a distance like the glow of some great city. Aruba was simply a lump of coral in the Caribbean, first inhabited by Indians, then occupied by the Spanish, taken by the French, and finally exploited by the Dutch. Fifteen ...

... plant in existence, and a dry dock capable of handling ships of eight thousand tons, the biggest east of the canal zone at Caribbean. It gave employment to 4000 natives and one thousand whites. Of the white population, about eight hundred were Americans ...