Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week in Virginia City merger of four of the most fabulous Comstock mines will be broached-Ophir, Mexican, Andes and Consolidated Virginia. Only "Eastern interest" to admit his connection with the deal was John Jacob Raskob, identified in the local Press as a "New York contractor." With his wife, the onetime Democratic National chairman was at nearby Lake Tahoe...
...Bolivian Indians are Andes highlanders who know how to handle llamas, have never won a war. They work in Simon Patino's tin mines, producing one-quarter of the world's tin, avoid the flooded bottomlands of eastern Bolivia and, 3,000,000 strong, have sense enough to rebel periodically against their 250,000 white overlords...
...Valparaiso, Chile last week half a ton of live lobsters were loaded on a plane, sent scudding across the jagged Andes to Argentina. The city of Buenos Aires, on the muddy River Plata where there are no lobsters, was having a party...
...these far-flung laboratories in getting to the bottom of modern scientific problems, since books are so hopelessly inadequate in the more intricate investigation. Circling the world today, from the jungles of Slam, where Dr. Andrews is making his ethnological observations, to the mountain fastnesses of the Chilean Andes, where altitude studies are being made by Dr. Keyes and the Fatigue Laboratory, Harvard is everywhere the patron of scientific research. With anthropological and archeological studies increasing in importance every year, Harvard has adopted the commendable policy of supplying its individual departments with ample funds to carry out this work, rather...
...endorsement. What he lacks is money ($150,000 for prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...