Word: amazone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Explorations in the Amazon Basin," a lecture illustrated with motion pictures will be given today by Alexander H. Rice '01, professor of Geographical Explorations, at 5 o'clock. Repeated for the benefit of those absent from the first lecture on December 10, it is scheduled to be held at the Geographical institute...
...Hamilton Rice, veteran of seven expeditions to the Amazon country, Director of the Institute of Geographical Exploration and Honorary Curator of South American Archaeology and Ethnology in the Peabody Museum, will lecture on "Explorations in the Amazon Basin" at 4 o'clock today at the Institute...
...royal stables late in the evening, an old cream mare whinnied feebly, gasped for breath and died. She was Amazon Leader, last of the train of eight which had drawn George V to his Coronation 26 years before...
...usual, the chief victim of this lucrative international racket was the U. S., which grows no rubber, uses more than one-half the world's supply. Henry Ford, with his 2,500,000-acre concession in the heart of Brazil's Amazon jungles, hopes eventually to free himself if not the U. S. from its vulnerable dependence on Far Eastern rubber...
...Whiskey sales, as well as production, have always slumped in the hot months, gin sales traditionally rising. To improve whiskey's standing as a summer drink, Calvert Distilling Co. last winter dispatched an expedition to the Amazon ("Green Hell of Guiana" for advertising purposes), equipped with "dermatherms" and plenty of Calvert whiskey. After sitting around in the jungle drinking Calvert for six weeks the expedition returned with figures showing that skin temperatures were ½° to 1° lower after "ingestion" of the whiskey...