Word: amazons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...
...beds of Amazon River tributaries in remotest Amapá territory, the glitter of gold has set off periodic rushes since 1893. Early in June a ragged, unshaven prospector stomped into a river village with word of the latest strike. To pay for medicine, food and tools, he had a poke of alluvial nuggets, which he had found in a branch of the Jari River...
Almost 5,000 gold seekers soon converged on the site. From the territorial capital, Macapa, they rode 200 miles up the Amazon in motor launches, another 170 miles up the Jari, paying $75 to travel in dugouts with outboard motors; they portaged around twelve waterfalls and eight long rapids. Eronias Fernandes da Silva, discoverer of the gold and, by custom, proprietor of the field, rented them on a shares basis the right to pan or sluice along 20 to 30 yards of river bank...
Broken Records. After the first day's events, the Russian smiles were broader than ever. In the first track & field final, Nina Romaschkova, a blonde Russian Amazon, stepped up and heaved the discus 168 ft. 8½ in., an Olympic record. Minutes later, Czechoslovakia's loose-jointed Emil Zatopek, who runs as if fighting off a seizure of St. Vitus' dance, dashed through the tape to win the 10,000-meter run final in 29 min. 17 sec., smashing his own 1948 Olympic record...
Strange World (O. A. Bayer; United Artists) sets some unreal movie doings against the real background of the Amazon. A young explorer, in quest of the golden Inca idol his father died seeking, not only discovers the statue but also a girl member of the original ill-fated expedition, who has now grown up to become a sort of Jane Russell of the jungle. Boy & girl lose the idol but, predictably, find that they idolize each other. Fumblingly filmed in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and awkwardly dubbed in English, Strange World features man-eating crocodiles, carnivorous piranha fish, headhunters armed...