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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chile has robbed Bolivia of her corridor to the sea (see above) and Nature has perfected Bolivia's woe by dividing the country into two mismated parts. Her lowlands of orange groves and palms are abundant; but almost totally inaccessible from her enormously high plateaux rich in tin. Without borrowing more than she can now borrow it would be impossible for Bolivia to link her highlands and lowlands by rail. As matters stand the problem of transportation is solved by such primitive means that three out of every four employed Bolivians work as carriers. Even so Bolivia...
Uruguay. The smallest South American country is among the most bounteous, salubrious and progressive. Perhaps no other land is so well watered and ideally suited to sheep and cattle raising. Prosperity is focused upon a relatively few rich ranchers, and they in turn concentrate their whole wealth in Montevideo...
Finally Uruguay is a rich little melting pots of emigrants from the South American countries themselves. Last year she welcomed 6,000 Brazilians, 50,000 Argentines, and less than 30,000 Europeans...
When an incalculably rich and potent publisher stoops to the lowly plane of author, and writes a piece for his paper, the subject must be dear to his heart. Last week it was no less a publisher than Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson who appeared as contributor to his nickel weekly, Liberty-His subject was aviation and to adumbrate his emotion he quoted from Kipling (with emendations) as follows...
...examination in Greek mythology and the Bible the division of Fine Arts has subscribed to the fashion current in the field of the humanities of widening the latitude of study to embrace topics related to the central theme in their status as background or sources. An understanding of these rich stores of artistic symbolism will deepen the meaning of the carved or painted subject for the student. There have been men who could explain the significance of Judith and Holofernes in oil or marble, who did not know, to borrow sporting parlance, what league these principals played...