Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the Argentine to the Andes (he crossed them three times), to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador. Colombia. Panama, Central America, Mexico, Tschiffely & beasts plowed through jungles, swamps, deserts, mountain passes, across swinging bridges, in fair & foul weather. Once Tschiffely, on a dark night, tried to drive his comrades over a precipice; their horse sense saved him. Once Gato refused to budge; Tschiffely found he was facing a quicksand. Tschiffely refuses to manufacture adventures, but admits that once he had to shoot in self-defense. He often had passport trouble and was occasionally taken for a spy, but by the time...
...little Paraguay's objectives were land and the tannin from the quebracho tree. To stop the war that has never been declared, three sets of peace makers including a neutral commission in Washington, a League of Nations observation commission and the ABCP group of neighbors (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru) had done nothing. When it was winning last December, Paraguay wanted no peace in the bog. Last week advancing Bolivia wanted no peace, suggested a 30-to 60-day armistice to bring up fresh troops and supplies, the front to remain the same as at the end of hostilities. Paraguay...
...Argentina. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela...
Orchids grow from Alaska to Argentina in the Western Hemisphere. The best are hardest to find, in the jungled Casanare and San Martin regions of Colombia and Peru. A good man to find them was Swedish-born John Emil Lager, until the U. S. put an embargo on orchids in 1919 because they carry insects. From 1890 until 1908 he ranged South America for the wild strange blooms from which he has grown rare progeny ever since-huge single flowers for debutantes, dowagers and prima donnas; smaller ones for fancy gentlemen; orchids in long sprays, in tiny spidery spikes, some...
...Lima ten hours of explanation to Peru's Congress were necessary before the Government won a vote of confidence in its "scrap of paper" policy towards the treaty of 1922. In Bogota, the Government decreed military conscription (with exemption purchasable for 900 pesos...