Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sidelight cast upon the whole situation by famed Fight Tycoon Tex Rickard. "In 1913," said he last week, "I came up through the Argentine with twenty cowboys, 50,000 head of cattle and a train of about fifty wagons, with the idea of crossing into Paraguay across the Pilcomayo River, the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine. Well, as soon as we got into Paraguay we came across a lot of forts, all filled with Bolivians. And these Bolivians-soldiers they were-said that if we didn't turn back they'd shoot...
...Well, we thought we'd better go round, so we came out again and went south through the Argentine to Asuncion and into Paraguay across the eastern boundary, the Paraguay River. When we got there we told them how there were a lot of Bolivians sitting in forts in the middle of Paraguay, and that vexed them a bit. It was the first they'd heard of it, I guess...
Brazil is the land of staggering vastitudes. Here grow more trees than in any other country in the world, and most of them are valuable hardwoods. Through illimitable forests flows the stupendous Amazon, largest and second longest river*on the Globe. The 20 United States of Brazil comprise an area greater than that of the 48 United States of North America. Here dwell nearly half the population of South America. To complete the breathtaking catalogue of records, Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking country in South America and the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world...
...Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather wild rubber for the Racketeer King. Curiously enough a majority of the simple, aboriginal Indians of Brazil were for centuries totally ignorant that a human can swim. Their remote, abysmal backwardness is significant...
Last week, it became apparent that such an executive had both asked and answered such a question. The executive was Col. Sosthenes Behn. His company was the 8-year-old International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which last week announced plans to pay $60,000,000 for the British-owned United River Plate Telephone Co., serving 185,000 subscribers in Buenos Aires and four Argentine provinces...