Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South American freight order, a 55-ton shipment. Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...
...centuries, first for the powerful "communist" Inca kings, later for their Spanish conquerors, an endless stream of gold flowed to their high capitals from mines deep in the gorges of the Andes. Forced labor was used and few except the conquered Indians and their masters knew the exact location of the mines. Along mile-high precipices, over the backs of peaks twice that height, the laborers toiled with bags of nuggets. Llamas could carry only 100 Ib. through that rarefied air, burros-even though an extra set of nostrils had been punched through their nasal passages at birth-about...
...task was to move 500 tons of mining plant and workers from La Paz 60 miles over the peaks to the long disused Tipuani Valley Mine lying almost at sea level in a depression between the Andes. At take-off an airplane must rise from a landing field at La Paz, 12,000 feet above the Pacific, and immediately rise another 8,000 feet to clear the crest of the Cordillera before descending into the narrow valley...
...bits, put the glass in his mouth, took a draught of water. Of the hardships suffered by him and his late companions, he said piously, "I knew we would not all die because at the mountain top I laid my hands on the feet of the Christ of the Andes for a blessing...
...chinchilla. No chinchilla has ever been kept alive in a U. S. zoo more than a year. The temperate climate of the U. S. is completely unsuited to the creature's constitution. In 1913 one M. F. Chapman of Los Angeles went high into the Chilean Andes, managed to trap a dozen. He brought them down gradually, kept them at 11,000 ft. for two years, 9,000 ft. for a year. It took him nearly six years to reach sea level. During the 8,000 mi. voyage to California the animals were kept packed in ice. All their...