Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conversation is drowned out now and again by grainboats whistling for bridges in the Chicago River, beneath the windows−insistent voices of the Farm Problem...
Three large Ford ships arrived at the mouth of the Tapajoy River in northern Brazil, last week, bearing engineers, physicians, mechanics, and material to develop Motor Man Henry Ford's rubber concessions at Para. The material was admitted without duty...
They have soared in throbbing airplanes more than 1,500 miles over Congo swamps, diamond mines, cannibals, palm oil factories, pigmies, ivory hunters, and savage, slimy, man-eating crocodiles. Also Their Majesties sailed a thousand miles down the mighty River Congo (larger than any other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows...
...lips, and with sharp nails clawed out brains-succulent delicacy for the night's banquet. Convicts were killed by their own parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king and you big mans stop we trade, and s'pose dat true, what we do? ... We law is, s'pose some of we child go bad and we no can sell 'em, we father must kill dem own child. And s'pose trade...
Capt. Anton Heinen, builder of Zeppelins and the ill-fated U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was made a citizen of the U. S. last week at Toms River, N. J. His examination score was 100%. He is now engaged in building two dirigibles for the U. S. Navy...