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Discovery of a new bed of ancient fossils in southern Brazil has proved a great step forward for the expedition of Llewellyn I. Price and Theodore E. White of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Many of the fossils brought back from Brazil are of genera never before seen by man. One of these, a delicately boned lizard, about fifteen inches long, belongs to the order of thecodonts, whose evolution developed some of the greatest dinosaures. Another specimen, an oddly crushed reptile skull, is believed to be chasmatosaurid, belonging to a carnivorous alligator type, probably about twelve feet long. Other new animals were found in the cynodont, dicynodont, and rhynchosaur groups...
...usual, the chief victim of this lucrative international racket was the U. S., which grows no rubber, uses more than one-half the world's supply. Henry Ford, with his 2,500,000-acre concession in the heart of Brazil's Amazon jungles, hopes eventually to free himself if not the U. S. from its vulnerable dependence on Far Eastern rubber...
...Brazil nuts and buttermilk, inquired what the Church's annual Easter pageant was to be. Usually it was a work called Lord of Life but, as the current Zion souvenir program relates, "When God's clock struck the hour for the presentation of Zion Passion Play, He had ready a young man." That young man was Elder Jabez Taylor, now 29, one of the Community's twelve ordained ministers. Having discovered he hated to preach, "Jay" Taylor had taken to directing church plays, and for Overseer Voliva he worked up a Passion Play which cost...
...arbiter between the sides and as manager of the League loan. The award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936 to the Foreign Minister of the Argentine directs attention to the part South America is starting to play on the world stage. Of the countries large enough to intervene Brazil is the best choice, particularly in view of its cultural affinity to Spain. Whatever statesmen do step forward may win reputations like that of Theodore Roosevelt after his arbitration of the Russo--Japanese War. At any rate, Italy having laid its cards on the table, it is time to start...