Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year after he took charge, Dr. Mann talked Walter P. Chrysler out of enough money to send a Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition to Africa to get animals. In 1931 he again took his sloppy clothes and battered hat abroad, that time to British Guiana where he hacked into the interior and hacked out again with 400 excellent specimens. Today he has nearly 4,600 specimens in the 175 wooded acres of his zoo, rated one of the leading parks in the U. S., and within a fortnight he expects to have a 30% increase in his family. For last January peregrinating...
...with photographs, of a blissful experiment in "savagery, barbarism and civilization" at bargain prices on the island of St. John, V. I., by a newlywed pair who fled New York to escape the big corporations, the political rabies of their Depression-time friends. On a side trip into Dutch Guiana Author Holdridge found warm, if contradictory clues to the fate of Paul Redfern, the lost flyer, but lacked money to follow them...
...Fools' Day, the Orsbornes and two other fishermen ran away with the new trawler Girl Pat, chugged south for an unknown destination (TIME, June 8 et seq.). Three months later, after a wild, zigzag cruise across the South Atlantic, the Orsbornes & crew were apprehended at Georgetown, British Guiana...
...rattling good maritime joke, salty Lady Houston bought the Girl Pat for $16,500, said she was going to present her to the Orsbornes. The philanthropic widow who so admires virility planked down $2,500 more to cover the cost of returning the Girl Pat from Guiana to Eng land. Up in Old Bailey Court last week stood Dod & Jim Orsborne to plead not guilty of stealing the Girl Pat. As defense, they declared that they had made off with the trawler so that her owners could collect $15,000 insurance, which they...
...Georgetown, British Guiana, Pundit Mahangoo married a third time on his 106th birthday, squeaked: "I believe love rejuvenates...