Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey day, while Santa Fe's celebrants slept, a little group of mourners gathered in the yellow old Denver and Rio Grande Western depot to watch the train pull out. It was the last run of the "Chili Line" and the end of the D.&R.G.W.'s famous track-the narrow-gauge line from Santa Fe, 125 miles to Antonito, Colo...
...General's dream of a road to Mexico City finally went glimmering, but the D.&R.G.W. became part of a famous system. And the branch which twisted up the sides of the Rio Grande canyon, skirted precipices 1,000 feet above the river, labored across the sagebrush acres of the sun-drenched plateau, climbed 9,000 feet in the air, and finally shot down into whitewashed Antonito, lived on to nurture some fabulous tales: of how they had to hinge the engine's boiler in the middle to get it around the curves; of how the conductor...
Through this cordon a suspicious looking car tried to pass. The police halted it, arrested Karl Heinz Sandstede, brother of the fugitive. Thinking they had the right man, they relaxed their watch. Early the next morning Gottfried Sandstede boarded a Condor plane for Brazil. As he arrived in Rio de Janeiro Ambassador von Thermann announced blandly that Herr Sandstede had been recalled to Berlin to report on anti-German activities in Argentina...
Polin, who studied science at various universities without ever bothering to take a degree, has patented about 100 inventions, including an ultra-high frequency radio telephone service used on Navy dirigibles and a remote control device for radios and oil burners. He now works at a new laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, collects sport clothes and pipes (he has a standing order with Dunhill Co. for any new models they turn out). Without benefit of title or speechmaking he has become the favorite U.S. ambassador of good will to Brazil...
While this agreeable potlatch was going on, below the Rio Grande many Latin Americans were talking to their hearts' content about the Russo-German War. Last week these over-all reactions were reported in a survey of Latin American public opinion...