Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civilized man. Only a few other regions have escaped man's mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America's narrow end. the snow-swept islands stretching vaguely north from Canada's "barren lands," and the American Southwest's trackless deserts...
...first photograph ever taken showing the earth's curvature. Snapped in one-fiftieth of a second from an airplane in South America by Captain Albert W. Stevens, U. S. Army photographer, the picture shows a stretch of 300 miles of pampas beyond which rise the Andes. The distant horizon line of the pampas is curved slightly downward at one end. The picture was taken on film made sensitive to red and infra-red rays (not scattered by earth's atmosphere like the shorter wavelengths) by the addition of kryptocyanine, a photo-sensitizing...
...aristocrats, able generals. Both were friends of LaFayette, both wrote voluminous political treatises which have profoundly affected the courses of their nations. Washington secretly, Bolivar openly mistrusted and despised the common people. Both often led ragged, ill-equipped armies. Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, Bolivar crossed the Andes in midwinter. Washington had German drillmasters, French troops to help him. Bolivar had a foreign legion of British and Irish veterans of the Napoleonic wars under the dashing General Simon B. O'Leary. Washington's insularity may have been due to the fact that he never left...
Other copper news last week included rumors of further price reductions, an-other dividend cut by Anaconda Copper, now on a $2.50 basis against $6.75 last year, and by Andes Copper, now on a J$1 basis against $2.25. Inspiration Consolidated Copper, on a $3.75 basis last year, and Greene Cananea Copper, on a $7.50 basis last year, both passed dividends. Phelps-Dodge's stockholders who last year complained because the company retained a conservative $3 dividend rate are now among the few copper shareholders who have not had their income reduced...
...Opera. Manhattan audiences, watching the opening curtain, were reminded of that Hispanic musical durbar of a past season called Rio Rita. There were a number of handsome U. S. citizens transplanted to a South American scene. They apparently had been having difficulty in locating a gold mine in the Andes which had once been worked to a profit by the Incas. The plot grows more Incandescent when it develops that Jack Haines (Guy Robertson) has fallen in love with a lady (Ethelind Terry) who has been despoiled of her father's gold claims. More or less abetting a scheme...