Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Byrd. Twelve nations sent envoys to the Coronation. First to arrive was Special Ambassador Herman Murray Jacoby. Born 38 years ago in Germany, two years ago he sold out his Manhattan bond house, announced that he had retired "to cultivate my hobbies," proceeded to explore Brazil's Amazon, turned up in Abyssinia last week as President Hoover's representative...
...American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands of miles of unknown country along the river mouths of the Orinoco and the Great Amazon, long coastal stretches of the Guianas, Venezuela, and Northern Brazil, and successfully established three sections of their international route over territory where foreign lines had tried to entrench themselves and failed in spite of heavy state subsidies...
...tangled jungles of the Peruvian (upper) Amazon emerged last week a botanical expedition of the Field Museum, Chicago. Some items of medical interest forwarded by Llewelyn Williams, leader of the party...
When he was 16, Alexander Siemel ran away from home in Riga, Latvia. When he was 21, he left Manhattan for Brazil. Thirteen years ago, aged 27, he went to live in the jungles at the headwaters of the Amazon to mine diamonds. That did not pay too well, so he took up tiger hunting...
...AMAZON-Elliot Paul-Liveright...