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...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...
...tiny craft's three 500 h.p. motors opened wide, disappeared toward Spithead in a choppy sea at 44 knots with cascades of spray bursting over his eager head. Twisting and turning at terrific speed among the breakers, Flea Boat No. 1 overhauled the destroyer H. M. S. Amazon which was doing her best to dodge, fired at deadly close range a dummy torpedo and saw it crash against the Amazon's side for a direct...
...free public lecture on "The Amazon Basin" will be given by Professor Walter II. Haas, of Northwestern University, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Divinity Avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...