Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Lois De Fee, 25, 180-lb., towering (6 ft. 2 in.) Amazon, onetime nightclub bouncer, and Lieut. Hugh M. Roper, A.A.F., 23; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Annapolis...
...statesmen are sitting around the peace table replanning the boundaries of the world, the chances are good that they will be using maps and globes prepared at Harvards Institute of Geographical Exploration. Founded in 1931 by Alexander H. Rice '98, professor of Geography and a noted explorer of the Amazon, the Institute has largely devoted its energies to the war during the last several years...
...September 1942 the U.S. was nearly 100% dependent on crude rubber imports; now the U.S. needs only 14% crude rubber, and gets it from a 100,000-ton stockpile imported from Liberia, India, the Amazon and other small-producing areas...
...year and a half ago Vice President Henry Wallace suggested that one major postwar project should be an international Tennessee Valley Authority. Other logical dreamers became more specific, talked of a DVA for the Danube, a YVA for the Yangtze, an AVA for the Amazon...
...harem. They lived in a small city adjoining his palace. In the center was a garden and artificial lake, where the princesses bathed and picked water lilies. There was a theater, a gymnasium, a temple where Anna Leonowens taught English. There were blacksmith shops, slave quarters, barracks for the amazon guards. King Mongkut and a few priests were the only men allowed inside its high stone walls...