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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presentation before the National Geographical Congress at Amsterdam of a new physiographic method of showing landscape on maps and the exhibition before the Anthropological, Ethnographical and Archeological Congress at Copenhagen of the largest map of Liberia ever surveyed are a few of the matters which have occupied Erwin Raisz, Instructor in Geographical Exploration, during the past summer...
...last week the commission had decided "what is right and good." To Paraguay the map makers awarded the lion's share of the area. Paraguay will get about three-quarters of the disputed Chaco Boreal, an area about the size of Missouri. Generally regarded as impassable swamp in winter and dry-as-dust desert in summer, the Chaco has long been held by Paraguay to be potentially a land of cattle raising, wheat and cotton growing...
...Simon Bolivar has adopted a Drang nach Osten (Drive toward the East) policy of her own, with only tough little Paraguay to oppose her in obtaining a water route to the Atlantic. Now Bolivia will have a small corridor between the Brazilian border and the new Paraguayan border (see map) to the Paraguay River, where she can build a port of her own. By filling in swampland, roads and railroads can be built from the Andean plateau to that port. From there Bolivian products can be transported down the broad Paraguay River into the Paraná River, then into...
Twenty-four hours later the Japanese Government launched a brand new major assault upon Chinese Independence in general and the Chinese Generalissimo in particular. In South China waters, on the night after Independence Day, wide-eyed captains of coastal steamers raced for Canton (see map, p. 17) with the news that scores of Japanese naval vessels were massed off Bias Bay, famed hideout of Chinese pirates, only 20 miles from the British Crown colony of Hong Kong...
...appears to have started when Bill Jhonson, a "scowling man who had a curled mustache," took a card from his coat. Tom gritted his teeth and "could hardly wait till night to settle with him.'' He riddled Bill Jhonson and all his bandit friends, then studied a map of a gold mine and said, "Guess I better go to sleep." In the morning he tried to clean up Silver City and there was a terrific battle. ''Smoke filled the streets, the shouts of men were drowned in the gun fire, in every store...