Word: orinoco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death in Jigtime. Curare's "poisonous reputation" began in 1595 when Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up the Orinoco and found the jungle Indians killing game with blow pipe darts dipped in black, tarry stuff (curare) cooked up from native plants (see cut). Its reputation was not improved when 19th-Century experimenters found that curare victims die from asphyxia caused by paralysis of their breathing muscles. Time: a few seconds...
ENOUGH FRONTIERS. In Australia, Canada and South America government commissions are laying plans for the immigration of millions of new settlers. Fifteen thousand workers have moved into the Amazon country. Engineers are exploring the water route from the Rio Negro to the Orinoco. Bulldozers have shoved a 1,671-mile road to Alaska, while the U.S. and Canada discuss joint development of the newly opened territory...
Venezuela was agog last week over tales of marvelous amphibian boat-trucks that will open up the heretofore impenetrable reaches of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers...
...research engineer of Higgins Industries Inc., whose torpedo boats and tank-carrying invasion boats are already important United Nations weapons (TIME, May 4). Within four or five weeks Dudley South expects to have a few experimental models of Higgins' new boat-trucks to play with up & down the Orinoco, in the hope of developing them for big-time passenger and freight use when peace comes...
...Texan South's immediate wartime job is to get rubber out of the dense forests of the Orinoco valley. For this he will use a new version of Higgins' famed Eureka boat especially built for jungle rivers. Already he has 25 of these boats ready to go. They will cut down the time from Puerto Ayacucho to Ciudad Bolivar from a hazardous ten days by canoe to 24 hours by Eureka-and carry a hundred times as much each trip...