Word: dorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixteenth Century Spaniards, to whom the Carib Indians although tortured would not tell the source of their gold ornaments, imagined a place of gold, El Dorado, at the headwaters of the Orinoco River. No known Spaniard nor other white, until last month, ever reached the Orinoco's source. Then Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey of Tippecanoe City, Ohio* and Manhattan, his bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river...
...Second cousin of Ossee Lee Bodenhamer of El Dorado, Ark., last year's stalwart National Commander of the American Legion...
...military airmen it is a serious limitation on operations, an absolute barrier to surprise maneuvers. Uncounted attempts have been made to silence the roaring engines-the latest last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I. by a Miss El Dorado Jones, of Manhattan, formerly of Moline...
Miss Jones, head of El Dorado Inventions, has been manufacturing automobile mufflers since 1913 when her ears were first assailed by an unmuzzled Ford in a Moline garage. Her idea for the airplane muffler she gleaned from contemplation of a grease-vapor exhaler set into the wall above a restaurant stove. Another of her products is a 2-lb. electric flatiron. Fiftyish, Miss Jones believes in the ability of women over 40, substitutes them for men at workbenches in her machine shops whenever possible...
...Miss Grosjean had left high school to marry James Terrell of El Dorado, Ark. At 18 she went to work for Lawyer Huey Parham Long. She has been constantly with him ever since. She campaigned with him for the Governorship in 1928, helped him beat impeachment proceedings in 1929, worked to win him his nomination for the U. S. Senate this year. Three years ago she divorced Terrell. During this year's campaign Terrell threatened to sue Governor Long for alienating his wife's affections. Mrs. Rose McConnell Long whom the Governor married in 19103 after...