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...that "the Gran Chaco is rated as a 'green hell' by romantic Author-Explorer Julian Duguid." This popular conception of the Chaco undoubtedly has been created by Duguid's Green Hell. The truth, however, is that Duguid's Green Hell is not the Chaco. He has never been in the Chaco proper and consequently any conclusions derived from a reading of his book are very misleading if they are applied to the Chaco Boreal...
...more than 100,000 inhabitants, is, today, little known. The most flourishing industrial establishments of the Republic: the great cattle ranches and agricultural colonies; the more than 500 kilometers of railroad bear witness to the civilizing capacity of Paraguay in the Chaco. That the Chaco is not the "green hell" of popular imagination may be easily realized by a consideration of the principal centres of civilization within its borders. Among these...
...wanted me to take the job. I did not want to take it. ... I was called in today to the log cabin on Pennsylvania Avenue and told I should accept the job. I'm a soldier and I do what I'm told to do. ... It feels like hell...
Meanwhile the U. S. State Department's famed "Trouble Shooter," George Charles Hanson, sailed from Manhattan to become U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Ethiopia. As a bon voyage gift last week one of his friends gave him L. M. Nesbitt's book on Ethiopia called Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME. March 25). "This book," beamed Shooter Hanson, "whets my interest...
...cautious approach to birth control, last week's 114th General Convention of the New Church in Detroit stuck strictly to routine business. A few delegates lamented the Church's failure to proselytize the 40,000 persons who last year bought 5? copies of Heaven and Hell from its loosely affiliated Swedenborg Foundation in Manhattan...