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...sand in the Marines' faces, threaten them, push them and form human barricades. They are then joined in their hostility by the natives who originally had welcomed the Marines. "Form wedges! Form wedges, goddammit!" cries a harassed Marine sergeant. Finally, the Marines disperse the mob and start pushing inland...
Beyond lies the desert, so parched that for miles on end not a living thing can be seen. A short distance inland, the Andean foothills rise to 13,000-ft. plateaus, inhabited by 53% of Peru's 11 million people, virtually all of them Indians. Some labor in the mines for $2 a day; others work the steeply terraced hillsides, chewing gummy wads of coca, a leafy narcotic, to ward off hunger and cold. In the village of Hualcan, 200 miles northwest of Lima, only eight of 900 people can even communicate in Spanish; the rest speak Quechua...
...Brazilians sometimes call it "the River Sea," and in fact the Amazon is like an inland sea. It holds nearly one-fifth of all the fresh water in the world. In places it is so wide that a steamer sailing up the middle cannot keep both banks in sight. Even 800 miles inland, dolphins arch through its surface and cormorants skim its waves. For Author Ogburn, the River Sea is both setting and protagonist for a rousing, sprawling, splendidly old-fashioned story of high adventure and romantic idealism...
...other maritime workers, 45,000 railroadmen, 48,000 truckers. With 855 ships tied up, U.S. ocean shippers were deprived of 161 million tons of freight. The nation's strangled lines of trade also cost highway carriers 9,000,000 tons of business, railways 7,000,000 tons, and inland waterways 500,000. With exports off by $60 million a day and imports off by $40 million, every day of the strike wiped out $20 million of the U.S. foreign-trade surplus...
With 23,500 railroad cars immobilized as they awaited unloading in harbors and another 25,000 backed up by an embargo at inland points, car shortages showed up as far inland as Wisconsin. B. Kuppenheimer & Co., a Chicago suitmaker, laid off 200 cutters and trimmed its production 35% for lack of imported fabrics. Textile and shipping employees in Houston and Boston had to go on unwelcome winter vacations. In Miami, a shortage of Scotch threatened vacationers while 200,000 cases lay in six ships in the port...