Word: swampland
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...keep parking places scarce. But while the plans are in the works, police are still busily tagging the cars of students who are hard put to figure out what the Council intends to do. There is no reason for these plans to disappear for five weeks into the swampland of "recommendation." The City Council has a chance to cut through a considerable part of the parking tangle. It is about time...
...southern end of the Mississippi Delta, in swampland that is four feet under water at high tide, Freeport Sulphur Co. has struck the biggest sulphur bed discovered in the past 20 years. From these new deposits at Garden Island Bay, La. (see map), Freeport expects to mine 500,000 tons of brimstone (pure sulphur) a year by 1953. The effect of this announcement last week was electric. Overnight, Freeport's stock shot up as much as 19 points, to 120, the highest price in the company's history...
...world's greatest rivers is the Mekong, which rises in Tibet and flows* 2,800 miles to the sea at the southeastern corner of Indo-China. The Mekong delta is a 100-mile-long wedge of swampland, rice fields, palm trees and mangroves, called the Cis Bassac. "The Devil does not want for water here," say the French who use the Cis Bassac as a base for operations against Communist guerrillas infesting the thick Foret Inondee to the west and the marshes of the Plaine des Jones to the east. Fifteen times in the last year the French have...
Jungle to Swampland. Such careful preparations are not enough to keep the River flowing smoothly. Though it also is a Book-of-the-Month choice (for January), the story soon turns as turgid as the widest reaches of the Amazon itself: the expedition breaks down, fever rages, the natives want to quit. Scientist Barna is found, but he wants merely to live in peace with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder...
Read as a travel account of the Amazon country, River of the Sun has some sharp, descriptive stretches. The sullen natives, the oppressive jungle and the endless, swollen waters often seem as real as the thick river heat. But as a novel, River loses itself in the swampland long before it reaches...