Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer will be spent in a rapid reconnaissance, covering 1,500 miles in New Mexico, Colorado, and the north of Texas. The traveling will be done by truck, and the party will usually camp out. The first place that will be visited is the northern basin of the Rio Grande, where ancient lakes will be studied. From there the party will go to the salt lakes in the enclosed basin of the Estancia, and across the plains of Eastern New Mexico, ending at the Carlsbad Caverns...
...help hasten a revival, Pan American last week provisionally slashed fares by an average of 30%-reductions ranging from 8% to 42%. Immediate objective is to coax U.S. traveling salesmen to fly into South America, also to stimulate tourist travel in the Carib bean. Some reductions: Miami-Rio de Janeiro, from $763 to $603; Miami-Cristobal, C. Z., from $329 to $223; Brownsville, Tex.-Cristobal, from $332 to $232; Miami-Havana, from $45 to $28; Miami-Nassau, from...
...Lake Constance, Switzerland. The wing destroyed by fire at Lisbon had been rebuilt (TIME, Dec. S). Some of the fine interior fixings had been pulled out to make way for more fuel. The proposed course direct to the U. S. had been abandoned for a route via Rio de Janeiro. And Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, former U. S. Navy flyer, had returned from the U. S. to his post as copilot. The DO-X carried a crew of 13, with 1,100 Ib. of mail (180,000 letters & cards) and six passengers, among them the Portuguese Admiral Gago Coutinho...
Coolidge. Away, away to Rio de Janeiro Mrs. Harold J. Coolidge, Boston social registerite is shortly sailing. It so happens that Edwin Vernon Morgan, the 65-year-old U. S. Ambassador to Brazil is a bachelor. After her 5493-mile journey, which will take three weeks, Mrs. Coolidge (no relation) will act as "official hostess'' for one night at a U. S. Embassy ball which, it is hoped, will be attended by Edward of Wales...
Barter. Last week General Italo Balbo's squadron of transatlantic seaplanes (TIME, Jan. 19) flew on from Natal to Rio de Janeiro, whence it was reported that the eleven Savoia-Marchetti ships would be delivered to the Brazilian Government in exchange for $618,420 worth of coffee...