Word: orinoco
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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...
...last fortnight, following the example of the U.S., Mexican officials boarded twelve Axis ships in Vera Cruz and Tampico, took possession of them to forestall sabotage. On board the Orinoco they found navigation instruments missing, learned that six Nazi sailors had disappeared...
Questioned, the sailors' grinning comrades told a fantastic story. In a soft. lifeboat, equipped with sails and an auxiliary motor, the missing men had stowed sextant and compass, fuel, a month's supply of food and water. Night before the Orinoco was seized, they slipped away, sailed quietly out of Tampico harbor, headed east across the Gulf. Presumably they hoped to clear the Florida Keys, make their way through the British blockade across 4,000 miles of open sea to an Atlantic port on the Nazi-occupied coast of France-a cruise some 800 miles longer than Captain...