Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME on time, or as near it as possible. Air Express was the answer. So we organized the TIME on Time Club of Argentina and now Panairliners flash the red TIME signal of hot world news down to Miami, over the Caribbean, along the Pacific coast and over the Andes to us in four and a half days...
From the Petrolea pumping station at the Barco field the pipe line snaked up 5,400 feet over the Eastern Andes, then down through miles of rotting jungle to the sea, thrice crossed the Magdalena River or its branches. It cost Cap Rieber and Socony-Vacuum a cold $40,000,000 ($18,000,000 for the pipe line; $22,000,000 for development work). "Hell!" says Cap Rieber, "if they wanted to move the Chrysler Building to Colombia, we'd do it -if they...
North Americans not only do not share this hero-worship, they probably know less about Bolívar than about any national hero in history. Such ignorance, thinks capable Biographer Rourke (Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes), is a gauge of "a century of misunderstandings and suspicions between the two Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...
...Condor of the Andes" was the style his countrymen gave this thoughtful, daring son of a German settler and Bolivian mother after he, in his late twenties, explored the wild Zamucos region. He served brilliantly in the Chaco War, afterwards was high in the military junta. When President Sorzano ruled too long by decree, Lieut. Colonel Busch was the Army's choice to supplant him. Last spring, banking on his enormous prestige with Bolivia's tea-colored masses, he declared a totalitarian State which he insisted derived from neither Germany nor Italy (TIME...
...short-wave radio receiving set sailed hoary-headed Robert Andrews Millikan, pious physicist of the California Institute of Technology. With him went two brilliant young colleagues: Physicists Henry Victor Neher and William Hayward Pickering. For 18 years Dr. Millikan has carted his balloons through the snowy ranges of the Andes and Rockies, has plunged his flat, metal electroscopes 280 feet into snow-fed California lakes, to measure minute amounts of electricity which may penetrate their surfaces. Purpose of his travels: to learn something about the mysterious cosmic rays which seem to speed from interstellar space, and constantly bombard the earth...