Word: andeans
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...commonly supposed, but is partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica is all one continent, as large as the U. S., Mexico and part...
...American-Grace Airways is jointly and equally owned by Pan American Airways and W. R. Grace & Co. (bankers & shippers). It flies the west coast route and the trans-Andean jump in the parent air company's great South American loop. Last week it had flown nearly 5,000,000 mi., crossed the Andes safely 1,200-odd times...
...after the humiliation of branding. The lovely flowered race course at Santiago, somehow English and somehow Swiss. The miracle of a transatlantic telephone conversation, across the mighty Andes, across the pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars. Bristling, pastel-colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic...
...milder form than in the Orient), yellow fever, malignant malaria, and in the seaports venereal disease. Country people exhibit comparatively little venereal disease. On the other hand, mainly because they go barefoot and tend to wash little, they are subject to the tropical fevers and sores. Oroya fever and Andean Wart are peculiar to a small area of the Peruvian highlands. Latin Americans are specially susceptible to cataracts, a situation which partially explains the eminence of eye doctors in the Pan-American Medical Association...
...Gallitos (the cockerels)-George R. ("Tuck") Johnson, 30, Robert Shippe, 20, and their three young companions-are amazing Peruvians with their airplane jaunts over the Andean ridge. From a base at Lima they have air-photographed the mountain folds, Inca ruins, and near Huancayo "the Great Wall" of Peru. Last week they and their two planes were at Arequipa, whence they will try to reach Lake Titicaca...