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...sense of personal loss, the impulse to render homage were universal. From the St. Lawrence to the Amazon, across Europe and the Middle East, to the Orient and the Antipodes, the leaders had known Franklin Roosevelt at firsthand. In Ottawa William Lyon Mackenzie King expressed Canada's feeling: it is "as if one of our very own had passed away." South Africa's great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves...
Married. Lois De Fee, 25, 180-lb., towering (6 ft. 2 in.) Amazon, onetime nightclub bouncer, and Lieut. Hugh M. Roper, A.A.F., 23; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Annapolis...
...statesmen are sitting around the peace table replanning the boundaries of the world, the chances are good that they will be using maps and globes prepared at Harvards Institute of Geographical Exploration. Founded in 1931 by Alexander H. Rice '98, professor of Geography and a noted explorer of the Amazon, the Institute has largely devoted its energies to the war during the last several years...
...September 1942 the U.S. was nearly 100% dependent on crude rubber imports; now the U.S. needs only 14% crude rubber, and gets it from a 100,000-ton stockpile imported from Liberia, India, the Amazon and other small-producing areas...
...year and a half ago Vice President Henry Wallace suggested that one major postwar project should be an international Tennessee Valley Authority. Other logical dreamers became more specific, talked of a DVA for the Danube, a YVA for the Yangtze, an AVA for the Amazon...