Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homes, that they may up and away after the engines when a big fire breaks out, is the little group of men & women who strive for fame as flying passengers. Such a one is Mrs. Clara Adams of Tannersville, Pa. who flew last week via Pan-American Airways to Rio de Janeiro, there to board the laggard giant DO-X for its flight...
...into the evening to continue dealings. New British Woolworth shares were a favorite, and such prominent London groups as the rubbers, home-rails, breweries and artificial silks were all higher. Internationals (mostly Americans) were strong. So were old favorites like Bats (British-American Tobacco), Imps (Imperial Tobacco), the Tinto (Rio Tinto), and the Johnnies (Johannesburg mining shares...
Died. Sir Hugh Bell, 87, English ironmaster, father of the late Gertrude Bell (explorer of Egypt and Arabia); in London; of a chill. Died. Otto Mears, 91. Colorado hero, in Pasadena, Calif. Because he was a pioneer railroader (onetime president of Denver & Rio Grande), a pioneer builder of such state-wide projects as the telegraph system, and a member of Colorado's first legislature, his stained-glass portrait hangs in the State Capitol's dome, Denver...
...remain in Natal about three weeks for overhauling and visit Rio de Janeiro for about a month before proceeding to the U. S. The famed elaborate furnishings, which had been pulled out of the cabin and shipped by steamer, will be restored in South America...
When night falls on the mountains south of the Rio Grande, human gnomes emerge from their huts and crannies. They are knobby-headed, big-eared, scaly-skinned creatures. Some of them are splotched with red, like rusty iron. Others are mottled with green, like stained copper. They resemble living pieces of their cordilIcras lit by the sun setting over the Pacific. But they cannot look at the sun. It hurts their red and puffy eyes which can only peer into shadows for herbs, roots and grains on which to feed. When the dazzling sun disappears for the night, the gnomes...