Word: andes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peruvian Andes, not far from Lima, lies a haunted valley. To be caught there after dark, natives say, means almost certain death. If late afternoon finds a muleteer in the valley, he gets panicky and whips his beasts to escape lefore sunset. Workers on the Central Railway, which winds between the valley's forbidding mountain walls, insist on being taken home each night. Travelers through the valley dread to ride the railroad in the rainy season, for fear a landslide may maroon their train...
Soft to Touch. Chinchillas are squirrel-sized rodents with wrinkly noses and turned-up tails. They are native to the high, dry, hot & cold Andes. To protect themselves from the fierce changes in temperature, chinchillas developed a remarkable platinum-grey coat with as many as 80 marvelously fine hairs springing from every follicle. So soft is chinchilla fur that a blindfolded person sometimes cannot tell when his hand is brushing it. The close-set hairs foil fleas, which cannot maneuver through them to blood-bearing strata below...
...ancient Incas fully appreciated chinchillas; they wore the skins and ate the flesh. Sometimes the Incas sheared them like tiny sheep, wove thistledown cloth of their "wool." In the late 19th Century, a rage for chinchilla swept the world of fashion-and furriers soon swept the Andes bare of the little animals...
...capita imports amounted to $4.33 in 1938, compared with oil-rich Venezuela's $30.63). It was glad to get Shell's $30,000 yearly for exploration rights in one-third of the nation's territory-in El Oriente jungle, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, a region once claimed by neighboring Peru. Ten years ago, Shell tackled the job by airplane and muleback, spent an amount unofficially estimated at $100,000,000, blueprinted a $35,000,000 pipeline, built highways and a village (Shell Mera...
Tentative plans for next summer include trips by club members to the 19,000-foot Mt. Huagoruncho in the Peruvian Andes, and to the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia. HMC members conducted a two-week reconnaissance trip of Mt. Huagoruncho in 1941, and they are looking forward to scaling it this time, Putnam says...