Word: swampland
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...only tough little Paraguay to oppose her in obtaining a water route to the Atlantic. Now Bolivia will have a small corridor between the Brazilian border and the new Paraguayan border (see map) to the Paraguay River, where she can build a port of her own. By filling in swampland, roads and railroads can be built from the Andean plateau to that port. From there Bolivian products can be transported down the broad Paraguay River into the Paraná River, then into the River Plata and finally into the Atlantic. Puerto Casado, further down the river in Paraguay, may also...
Last year Il Duce won the first victory in his twelve-year "Battle of the Grain," the drive to make Italy independent of foreign wheat imports. Due to years of intensified cultivation and reclamation of some 6,600,000 acres of swampland, Italian farms last year produced about 300,000,000 bushels, 20,000,000 more than the nor mal national need which was Mussolini's goal. The coldest, wettest winter since the turn of the Century, followed by a prolonged spring drought led to anticipation that this year's crop would fall to 220,000,000 bushels...
...photography while we were making a survey of possible air routes in Florida. During the whole of a flight over the Everglades, from Fort Myers to Miami, Mr. Fokker kept a sharp lookout for alligators. Whenever he saw a group of them, we swooped down over the swampland and Mr. Fokker ground away at his motion picture camera...