Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinclair-Rio Grande- Last week Harry Ford Sinclair, chairman of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., was elected chairman of Rio Grande Oil Co. Rumors of a merger between the two companies have been current. Oilman Sinclair said nothing of the sort was planned for the immediate future but that he and Rio Grande officials will "arrive at conclusions with respect to their future course." Rio Grande produces, refines and distributes petroleum products. Its territory is chiefly in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. Its chief trademarked products are Speedine and Rio Grande...
Satisfied, relieved, the police moved on. But next day Rio editors burst out in a tirade against the law, called it silly, praised the Prince...
...Carlos Chagas and the late Dr. Oswaldo Cruz of Rio de Janeiro traced the disease in Brazil. The "barber bug" sucks the blood of armadillos and other rodents infected with the local trypanosomes. Then the bug bites humans, depositing the trypanosomes in the wound. The parasites twist through the blood, causing fever and other malaise. By and by they drill into the heart and other muscles and the thyroid and adrenal glands, bone marrow and brain, where they change their form and multiply. Their spreading through the heart muscle may cause death. The adrenal attack colors the skin bronze...
Many a strange and wonderful thing happens in California. When the Sacramento River near Rio Vista?40 mi. northeast of Oakland?receded fortnight ago, the headless body of a young Hindu was found sitting bolt upright, chained to a tractor wheel. He was identified as Sant Ram Pande, 32, engineering student at the University of California. The method of his identification was remarkable. Only three weeks prior he had insisted that his fingerprints be recorded by the State Bureau of Criminal Identification. He had then set out to find the slayers of 13 Hindus who have been murdered...
...Rusk and Gregg Counties (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week in Gregg County, the town of Kilgore and the nearby tent-town of "Little Juarez" had grown so rowdy, so full of wastrels and misconduct, that the Texas Rangers had to take a hand. Five Rangers came up from the Rio Grande, five more converged on Kilgore from other parts of the State. Within two hours they had rounded up some 300 suspects and bad characters. The ten Rangers herded the lot of them into the Baptist church, booked them from the pulpit. They were a measly collection. Upon them were...