Word: belem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week electric eels made news when from Belem, Brazil it was reported that a party of U. S. scientists had caught one 3 ft. long with a potential of 380 volts, more than triple the common U. S. house current. Electric eels have produced up to 500 volts. Local Indians long ago recognized the nature of the eel's shocking power, naming the creature puraque, derived from their word for lightning bolt. But civilized man, in the Age of Electricity, though he understands the source of the firefly's light does not know how Electrophorus becomes electric...
Laggard, The DO-X, largest flying boat, last week resumed her laggard nine-month journey from Switzerland. Proceeding by easy stages from Belem, Brazil, where two motors had been replaced, she paused at San Juan to pick up a passenger. He was George Washington Grouse. Syracuse, N.Y. grocer, onetime passenger on the Graf Zeppelin. So eager was he to extend his accomplishments that he had waited two weeks for the arrival of the DO-X. After a stop at Cuba, the DO-X settled comfortably at Miami. Riding at anchor in Biscayne Bay, she was inspected by hordes of curious...