Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months after New York. The races?-only on Sundays." Getting no answer because no polite person ever points out the obvious, he does one of two things depending on his intelligence: he crams his stuff in his bag and rushes for the next plane to Santiago and then B.A., Rio and wherenot, stopping only to send a few postcards; or he turns over and goes back to dreaming about what a fine time he is having good-willing himself through South America...
Events still might make the choice unnecessary. From Rio de Janeiro came a radio flash: the I. C. White, 7,052-ton American-owned Panama-registered tanker, had been torpedoed and sunk on Sept. 27 in the South Atlantic, with a loss of four of her 38 men. This was the eighth U.S.-owned ship sunk in World...
First commercial micropaleontology was undertaken about 1920 in Houston and Dallas by Humble Oil and Refining Co., Rio Bravo Oil Co., Atlantic Refining Co. In 20 years micropaleontology has become a favorite course of budding geologists because of the jobs it offers. An expert Texas micropaleontologist can diagnose the age and character of 100 underground samples a day, making a geological index of 3,000 to 4,000 feet of drilling. In California, where petroleum signs are more complex, scientists must identify about 100 types of fossils in each sample, and analysis is far slower. All told, some 500 fossil...
...RIO DE JANEIRO--A moonlight sea battle in which an unidentified ship reportedly was sunk and another steamed away under cover of a smoke screen was described today by travellers who said the engagement occurred Friday night in full view of the Brazilian coast...
...apparently still on a glorified Cook's Tour, accompanied by a cameraman and Mary Beth Hughes, now finds himself busy with intrigue and rhumba in South America. Charley-fast becoming the poor man's Confucius-gets around as much as Mrs. Roosevelt. This time it's "Charley Chan in Rio," which rounds out the bill. The audience was relieved to find that it wasn't "Charley Chan...