Word: amazone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small cyclone of war vortexed, meanwhile, around Colombia's inland port of Leticia located 2,500 miles above the mighty River Amazon's mouth...
Club members now abroad include Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews who sailed for inner Mongolia fortnight ago; Gene Lamb in Tibet; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey leading his "dude" expedition down the Amazon. Lincoln Ellsworth was last week preparing a 1932 flight with Bernt Bal-chen across Antarctica. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed from Manhattan last week for, it was said, a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini concerning another submarine trip toward the North Pole...
...think that Dr. Dickey's $5,000 fee for the trip across the Andes and down the Amazon is excessive: rather it is trading upon the glamour of the tropics for the uninitiated. I'll guarantee the same trip and conditions for less than half of thai: I happen to live right on the trail...
Seven different kinds of water craft were used by Dr. Rice and his men, from steamboat to dugout, until finally the expedition was forced to walk the last part of the way Besides many wild animal studies, a series of pictures of the natives along the Amazon were made, while aerial photographs afford a complete and careful survey of the whole Amazon River valley...
...Rice, who is now in charge of the new Geography Building on Divinity Avenue, has been making trips for 30 years into a rectangular region larger than the great Lakes district, around the northern tributaries of the Amazon. In the now film, his voice accompanies it with a detailed explanation of what is occuring, making the movie complete in itself, and making it possible to show it anywhere...