Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days and a half of mentally whirling the globe around to look at the other side, one was sure to feel the hugeness and at the same time the nearness of areas which do not share the civilization of North America and Western Europe. A black line representing the Cape to Cairo railway was superposed on a map of the Western hemisphere; it wriggled south from New York, across the Caribbean and the bulge of South America, and came to an end somewhere west of Chile, at about the latitude of the Robinson Crusoe Islands. Startling facts were flashed...