Word: bog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hummocks in a bog are Forts Munoz and Nanawa, 60 mi. apart in the sopping Gran Chaco jungle between Paraguay and Bolivia. Last December the Paraguayans, South America's fiercest fighters, had pushed big Bolivia's lackadaisical army back to the outlying "forts" (huts on mounds) around Munoz. Last week the cloak-&-sword Bolivians, wearing second-hand U. S. uniforms, wielding jungle machetes, took "Fort" Jordan, backed the Paraguayans against Nanawa. their Verdun, a small French-built fort that was the last defense before the Paraguay River and Paraguay's second biggest city, Concepcion...
Last week Paraguay admitted that a general was a good thing even in a bog. As soon as Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt got back from exile (TIME. Jan. 2), he broke up the attacks against Munoz by counter-attacks on both wings. In the middle of the rainy season (South American armistice time), he sent his men floundering eastward on three fronts in an encircling movement. His coterie of one-time German Army officers led the little brown men in hand-to-hand Indian fighting with the machete, instead of the modern warfare that had astounded South...
Last year the Courrier des Etats-Unis, oldest foreign language paper in the U. S. (1828), got into a financial bog, had to abandon its daily edition (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the daily reappeared. The Courrier had been acquired by William Muriay Hewitt, promoter of foreign language newspaper advertising, from the family of the late Henri Sampers, which had published it since...
Where Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina join on the map of South America lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British Explorer Julian Duguid has described the Pilcomayo as "a vast, foul-smelling, oozy stretch of bog with as much movement as an unsqueezed sponge. ... An Englishman may obtain some slight insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary...
...particular hunger for the coating of most deadly Type III. He had searched the country from coast to coast, had made hundreds of experiments. The necessary enzyme Dr. Avery and Rene Jules Dubos, Rockefeller bacteriologist trained by New Jersey's Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, found in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey. (They found it in the muck of the bogs, not in the berries.) When the bog-bred enzyme and Type III pneumococci are mixed in a test tube, the pneumococci are skinned, like Samson lose their potency. The mixture Dr. Avery has injected into mice and rabbits...