Word: boas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imaginative shoemen of recent years have scanned the animal kingdom for new exotic skins with which to make ladies' slippers. Besides using horses, pigs, calves and goats, they have skinned kangaroos, seals, ostriches, alligators, boa constrictors, pythons, cobras, watersnakes, lizards, sharks, codfish. Last week at the Atlantic City convention of the Middle Atlantic Shoe Retailers, shoemen admiringly scrutinized a pair of evening slippers made from something still different-goldfish skin. The slippers look as if they were made of metal, cost $80 the pair. Shoemen hope to simplify the process, make them cheaper so that many a lady...
...rubber plantation of Ford Motor Co. in the state of Para contains 2,500,000 acres, lies along the Japajos river, may be reached directly by ocean-going steamers. A Ford city-port is already building at the village of Boa Vista. Operation actually began in 1928. Ford authorities agreed to clear 1,00 acres of jungle a year for the first four years. And just as Moscow authorities have vowed to speed up their Five-Year Plan, Ford managers have sworn to speed their Four-Year Plan. Dictator Stalin's most optimistic hope is to complete his Five...
...Pago Chico" is the tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...
Hunter Siemel, the man who kills jaguars with a bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor. These monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with...
...friend Mr. MacDonald sent along on the Rodney two M.P.'s and two Members of the House of Lords. One of the latter was peppery Baron Newton who, in a recent furious attack upon the Labor Government for recognizing Russia, called Bolsheviks "un attractive animals which, like boa constrictors and alligators, accept food, only to show their ingratitude by swallowing their keepers" (TIME, March...