Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Air Force Reserve officer has established an airport, possibly complete with a radio station, on the northern plains of the Amazon Basin (roughly six flying hours from Panama). There are about 30 recognized landing strips in the same area...
Said Byron: "An amazon ... a fine animal ... a gentle tigress...
...have been living in the Amazon Valley for the past 40 years, and have known intimately quite a number of English and American people, all of them decent and very well-behaved, also esteemed by everybody...
...thousand miles up the steaming Amazon from the Atlantic Ocean, 15,000 feet over the crusty Andes from the Pacific, lies the only undrawn boundary remaining on the American continents. The 50,000 square miles of territory in dispute between Peru and Ecuador lie mostly between the Marañón and Napo Rivers, tributaries of the Amazon (plus a picayune area along the Pacific coast). They are made up of a little fertile highland, a little more barren mountainside and much more tangled jungle, from which come a bit of rubber and some desiccated human heads for the tourist...
Many wild orchids from Colombia for the Air Express edition of TIME ! I have been gathering crude rubber in the Amazon, eating beefsteaks in the Argentine, climbing the Andes, and picking coffee in Colombia during the past four months-writing a get-acquainted series of articles for our Midwestern farmers on how our Latin American neighbors live, what they grow, and how they grow it. That has brought me up to date south of the border, but behind the times back home. That is, until I got the Air Express edition of TIME which enabled me to sit down...