Word: popocatepetl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plastic rock. More likely, Paricutin gets its lava from a smaller "local chamber" of molten basalt which gnawed its way toward the surface until it finally broke through. If the underground lava supply is large enough and active enough, Paricutin may grow as tall as 17,876-ft. Popocatepetl, 200 miles to the east...
...Terra hopes for better evidence. In April he will study the steep slopes of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl (pronounced Po-po-ca-tay-petal and Eesta-see-wattle), the peaks hanging over the Valley of Mexico. He believes that the valley was covered by a high-level lake during the prehistoric rainy spell. If this is true, there should be beach formations high up on the slopes, and Dr. de Terra may find more proof of human activity in Mexico...
...semifinal bout on postwar organization of the world. The diplomatic army of "Hemisphere nations cooperating against the Axis" consisted of some 300 generals. With them came secretaries, lobbyists, newsmen, propagandists, camp followers. They routed indignant tourists from hotel rooms, jampacked the town and, turning their backs on snow-clad Popocatepetl, eyed the suburban hill where stands Chapultepec Castle, site of the conference...
...Veracruz. The Red Army, which was supposed to win and was therefore given a slight edge in numbers and equipment, also outwitted the Blues. First Red move was to slam partly motorized infantry and cavalry into the only two eastward passes -over the massif formed by the famous volcano Popocatepetl and by Ixtacihuatl, "the Sleeping Woman"-through almost roadless, thoroughly inaccessible country...
...river Plate, that waters the land of the gaucho, to the sleepy borders of the Rio Grande, 120,000,000 Latin Americans last week came smack up against a fact. The fact was comforting to some, disquieting to others; but to all it was as huge and undeniable as Popocatepetl: that the U. S., either as Good Neighbor or as Colossus of the North, was definitely on the move...