Word: orinoco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crusader. Oscar Riddle was born in Cincinnati, Ind., got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, after returning from a natural history expedition to South America's Orinoco River, was well on the way to becoming an ichthyologist when a lecture on evolution gave a new turn to his career. He went to the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor in 1912 as a research associate, and, except for a Wartime sojourn in France, has stayed there ever since...
...thousands of different types of fish, only five can produce electricity. Best known of these is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a brownish-grey, snake-like creature that is not an eel at all but belongs to the carp and catfish family. Especially abundant in the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America, electric eels have six electricity-generating organs extending lengthwise through their tails, which make up four-fifths of the eel's body. If a man or animal touches an electric eel, he will be mildly shocked. But if he were brash enough to grab both...
...meats. Said 84-year-old President Josephine Wupperman, whose son, Cinemactor Frank Morgan (Francis Phillip Wupperman), is a vice president: "Isn't it strange how these things happen? Gobel, the great sausage maker, and my father-in-law, the pioneer traders in the great cattle of the Orinoco, were both Adolf-Adolf Gobel and Adolf Wup-perman-Wupperman in the town of Angostura, Venezuela, and Adolf Gobel in New York, both building on a lasting foundation for the benefit of humanity. Now at this late date, Gobel sausages and Angostura are linked-sausage links, if you like it that...
...from Brunswick, Ga. to fly to Brazil. Some 27 hours later Pilot Redfern's single-motored monoplane swooped down over the Norwegian freighter Christian Krohg 200 miles out of La Guaira, Venezuela. Getting his bearings, Redfern dashed on toward South America, where he was later reported over the Orinoco Delta. Then he vanished...
Homeward-bound on his yacht from South America, where he and his wife have been exploring the Orinoco River. John Hays Hammond...