Word: andes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tyrone Power and Cesar Romero were getting heroes' welcomes in South America. The pair were flying Power's plane in a good-will tour of their own, down the west coast and over the heaven-puncturing Andes to Argentina. In Santiago crowds choked the streets outside the actors' hotel. But Romero missed some of the whoop-te-do: somehow he had lost his footing in another hotel, back in festive Peru, and now lay abed with a cracked elbow...
...imaginary lands with super-cultured inhabitants. Greatest extender of the Atlantis myth: Author James Churchward, who invented the "lost continent of Mu" in the Pacific. Its inhabitants, the originators of civilization, colonized Atlantis 20,000 years ago. Their ships entered the "Amazon Sea" through a canal cut through the Andes Mountains, then in the puppy stage. Other Muvian colonies: Egypt, Greece, the Mayans...
First to Flow. Without doubt, black gold abounded in the Montana-as Peruvians call their Amazonian foothills east of the Andes. A jungle-whacking, California-financed wildcatter-the Ganso Azul (Blue Goose) Petroleum Co.-had long since proved that. Last week, Ganso Azul was hard at work, as it had been for seven years, not exploring but producing, cracking petroleum and selling gasoline, kerosene and diesel...
...Worlds. Argentina lived last week, as it had for the past century, in two worlds. One world was the cosmopolitan, factory-packed port of Buenos Aires. The other was the land of rich green pasturage, yellow grainfields and brown, newly-turned earth which stretched west to the Andes, south to Patagonia. It was what Englishmen called the "camp." as vast as the whole of the U.S. east of the Mississippi...
From the Chile-Argentine border Cameraman Bill Larsen of R.K.O.-Pathe News writes that he reads TIME'S Air Express Edition on burro-back at 4,000 meters (13,000 feet to me) up in the Andes...