Word: jungleland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missionary Case can find food in Burma if anyone can. He introduced almost the first vegetable garden to that jungleland. Burma-born son of a Baptist missionary from New England, he went back there after finishing his U.S. training in 1913, has preached pigs and eggs to the Burmese ever since. After a hard struggle he founded his school in 1923, to train dirt farmers in a four-year course and send them back to the villages to teach their fellows the fine art of growing food...
Protocol terms gave Ecuador 30,000 of a disputed 117,000-square-mile area of the arid mountains and steaming jungleland in the upper watershed of the Amazon River. Ecuador was also given free navigation rights on the Amazon and its tributaries (for potential oil shipments), but grumbled that pressure to sign had been severe. Peru did not grumble. To non-grumbling Peru Franklin Roosevelt sent a message praising "friendly consultation and mutual adjustment." To grumbling Ecuador went praise for "the spirit of cooperation and cordial collaboration...