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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tired of fighting the Spaniards, Abd-el-Krim, able, active, alert leader of the Riff Berber tribes, began an onslaught on the French on the south side of that strip of territory over which the Spaniards claim sovereignty and Abd-el-Krim exercises...
...gigantic tide rip, scores of miles long, where the El Nino (southbound) (TIME, Apr. 13) met the Humboldt Current (northbound...
Farther out at sea, however, there flows a warm current from the north, called El Nino (The Child) because it arrives each year at Christmas time. The few rains that have fallen on the Dry Coast have been blessings from El Nino...
Last winter, El Nino was delayed a trifle. It did not reach Eucador until the second week in January. Dr. Murphy and his companion, Van Campen Heilner, went out in launches to meet it, measure its speed, density, temperature and so on. They noted that the sea's heat rose more than 60° that one day. Schools of flying fish appeared, shoals of hammerhead sharks, flocks of seabirds. Then, from what took place on shore, they noted that El Nino had come in vaster volume, gone farther south then ever before in history...
...blessing of El Nino proved overabundant. With their arid lands made a paradise, the natives found themselves economically impoverished. Along the Dry Coast, roofs, never made rainproof, fell in; houses, made of mud, sank to the ground in soggy heaps. Water-filled boats sank. As the waters rose, cattle, gardens, buildings, whole farms and villages were swept from the earth into the sea. The largest losses, practically total, were suffered by the guano* industry. Islands off Peru from which 119,000 tons of guano (nine million dollars' worth) were mined last year, were stripped of their ancient deposits...