Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian king, El Dorado, a man so fabulously rich that he daily powdered himself from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...
Most encouraging factor was the appearance of the $200 (or, rather, the ($199.95) television set on the market. It was a good set and, under liberalized installment-buying regulations, within reach of most U.S. pocketbooks. Commercial sponsors, after their summer desertion, were beginning to come back to the fold-TV networks have more business scheduled for this autumn than ever before...
Officials clung to the hope that this year, unlike last, the crippling disease might reach a peak at an early date, then quickly taper...
...Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, Radical opponents of President Juan Perón's regime had made some sensational charges-that Perón's police force, augmented by hundreds of ex-Nazi soldiers, was torturing and brutalizing political prisoners. But Neville's story never reached TIME, nor did TIME's urgent "What happened?" messages reach Correspondent Neville. Last week, the explanation came...
Bran Bait. Stay-at-home grasshoppers are common all over the U.S., but the migrating types from the range lands do the most damage. After they reach maturity they rise in roaring clouds, fly hundreds of miles and utterly destroy any crop they settle...