Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Venezuela was agog last week over tales of marvelous amphibian boat-trucks that will open up the heretofore impenetrable reaches of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers...
...companies used the Eureka for exploration trips in the Louisiana bayous, later tried it on the Amazon, in the Persian Gulf, in the Far East. But it took war to put A. J. Higgins into the big time. His Higgins Industries, Inc. (70% owned by A.J. and his family) went into receivership in July 1931 with a total plant and equipment account of $2,565. As late as 1935, the company's total sales were only $87,000. But the next year the U.S. Engineers Corps gave him an order for two river steamer inspection boats...
...from the Orient, no missionaries can be sent there from Maryknoll this year. Instead, the Vatican has assigned the society a new missionary field among the pagan Indians in the forests of northern Bolivia, east of the Andes. Three missionaries will leave Maryknoll for the upper Amazon region on Easter Day; 17 more will follow after the June ordinations...
...puts in some featherweight flute-playing. Two sides are emboladas: as folkish to Brazilians as Frankie and Johnny is to Americans. Of the fascinating chants by Indian singers, one has so strangely Gregorian a flavor that it seems to show the hand of the Portuguese fathers who braved the Amazon jungles three centuries...
Says Ludwig: "A letter in such a tone can only be written by a woman of the Amazon type, who combines womanly pliancy with masculine pride, intelligence and irony with constancy in feeling, and lives it all at the headlong pace of a horsewoman...