Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles of it were all-weather roads; 2,150 were usable in dry weather; 1,200 were still bullock-cart trails. Only one section was hopelessly blank: between Panama City and Colombia stretched 186 miles of impassable jungle and swampland, with head-hunting Indians lurking behind each tree. Belief was that the highway would have to break off at Panama; that cars would have to be ferried over 1,000 miles around the coast to La Guaira, Venezuela...
With blood streaming down his cheek for the first time in his career, the champion went after Baer with the savageness for which he is famed. In the sixth round he weakened the giant with chopping rights & lefts, then felled him as though he were a redwood tree. At the count of seven, Baer staggered to his feet, only to be toppled again with another right to the jaw. Just as the timekeeper counted ten, Baer's gloves slowly left the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan motioned the fighters to continue. Once more, Baer toppled to the floor...
They had to learn to use machetes, cut their trails through matted tree and vine. They packed tents, food, guns, building materials, ammunition into the steaming wastes by boat, truck, muleback, and shanks' mare. They slashed down forests, cut away hilltops and hillsides to make sites for their guns and quarters. They built their barracks, from foundation to rooftop...
Good Neighbor's Problem. What the Argentine Government would do to help the Chaco was not known last week. The delegation that went to Buenos Aires suggested lowering the tree-felling tax to cut costs so that quebracho users would buy for inventory, thereby absorbing some of the unemployed in the quebracho industry. That would alleviate a little of the misery...
...failure of their car to make a curve on Memorial Drive Saturday afternoon, Benjamin O. Gardiner '43, of Gardiner, Maine, Walter R. McVeigh '43, of New York City and William T. Emmot '42, of Glen Gove. New York the driver, crashed into a tree, and last night were interned in Metropolitan hospitals, all badly injured...