Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protocol terms gave Ecuador 30,000 of a disputed 117,000-square-mile area of the arid mountains and steaming jungleland in the upper watershed of the Amazon River. Ecuador was also given free navigation rights on the Amazon and its tributaries (for potential oil shipments), but grumbled that pressure to sign had been severe. Peru did not grumble. To non-grumbling Peru Franklin Roosevelt sent a message praising "friendly consultation and mutual adjustment." To grumbling Ecuador went praise for "the spirit of cooperation and cordial collaboration...
Mexico's Heel. To arid, lizard-like Baja (Lower) California, via Nogales, Ariz. and San Diego, Calif., went Mexican troops, moving across U.S. soil with Washington's permission. Avila Camacho, in a smart military-political stroke, named his predecessor Lázaro Cárdenas chief of Mexico's land, air and naval forces on the west coast, concentrated most of his country's tidy little Navy in the Pacific. From his Senate he sought authority to open ports and bases to ships and planes of the U.S. and any American nation at war with...
Guayule rubber is not new; Intercontinental Rubber Co. has been producing and selling it for 35 years. A U.S. corporation, Intercontinental gets all of its guayule rubber from Mexico, where the shrub grows wild in high, semi-arid regions. Mexican peons yank the plants from the ground, tie them on the backs of plodding burros, send them off to one of Intercontinental's three Mexican factories. There the rubber is extracted by running the plants through grinding and pebble mills. The final product (which is shipped to the U.S. in 100-lb. boxes) looks, feels and smells like tree...
...flaming torches carried by relays of Indian runners have been moving towards Mexico City from the jungles of southeastern Yucatan and the arid hills of northwestern Sonora. The torches, symbols of freedom, were supposed to reach the capital for the Day of Revolution, Nov. 20. But last fortnight one torch was extinguished. Padding through a little village in Sinaloa, the torchbearer was arrested as an arsonist...
...Since the county is arid, all Deaf Smith farms and many village homes are equipped with one or more windmills, drawing water from a depth of 70 or 80 feet. This water has a great deal of calcium and just the right amount of fluorine to preserve teeth. In several Midwest States an abundance of fluorine in drinking water causes dark brown mottled teeth, pits and erosions; in Deaf Smith the mottling is very mild...