Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice a month, the tribes living in the foothills of the Amne Machin range of western China sing an ode to the mighty peaks above. They sing that Amne Machin is a sacred mountain, holding untold stores of gold. Travelers who tamper with its treasures or its mysteries (says the ode) will provoke divine wrath expressing itself in hailstorms and other calamities...
Undeterred, Chicago's Milton Reynolds, manufacturer of ballpoint pens (". . . writes high in the stratosphere . . ."), together with the Boston Museum of Science, arranged an expedition that would explore the hitherto entirely unexplored Amne Machin range. Reynolds was out to discover the world's highest mountain (which some believe may be located in the Amne Machin), expressed the hope that a grateful China would name it after...
...feet sheer from the lush green hills of Minas Geraes. It is a landmark that on a clear day can be seen by an airplane pilot 50 miles away. It is also one of the world's most precious topographical oddities. Caué is Brazil's Iron Mountain, a fabulous lode of some of the world's best ore, pure enough (up to 68%) to compete with Sweden's finest, vast enough to challenge Minnesota's great Mesabi...
Working the Mine. At Allied urging, Dictator Getulio Vargas nationalized both the mountain and the rickety, narrow-gauge railway that leads to the port of Vitoria, 375 twisting, malarial miles away. When the Rio Doce Valley Co. was formed to administer the entire property the government and private investors subscribed to its $15 million capitalization and the U.S. Export-Import Bank chipped in $19 million more...
...government recently subscribed $19 million for Itabira. Last week, after a year of heated negotiations, the finishing touches were being put to a new $7,500,000 Export-Import Bank loan. That meant electric shovels, compressed-air drills and crushing plants for the Iron Mountain. It also meant further improvements on the railroad, new facilities at the port. With all that done, say in two years, Itabira hoped to reach its immediate target: a yearly output of 1,500,000 tons...