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...weft which bound their interests together was the Plata network (see map) of rivers flowing across an area nearly half the size of continental U. S. The Plata itself is a muddy, shallow estuary funneling down from a 25-mile-wide neck above Buenos Aires to a 138-mile-wide mouth in the Atlantic. Into it flow the Uruguay and the Paraná-Paraguay rivers. The Uruguay cuts south from Brazil for 1,000 miles, separating the northern tongue of Argentina from Uruguay and Brazil. To the west is the 2,200-mile Paraná. Starting in the highlands...
...Gulf, Batangas Bay, Manila Bay. On a map, Lingayen Gulf looks Manila like a setup-a broad, sheltered stretch of water with good beaches and roads leading directly down to the heart of the defense area at Manila. But there is trouble for an invader here. The water is shallow and only the small outriggers can use the gulf's shores. To land at Lingayen an enemy would have to anchor two or three miles offshore, lighter his troops to the beach. Once ashore, he would find that the single rail road and two trunk highways leading south...
...crossed France and Spain to Lisbon disguised as a woman. So, despite its unusual title, his recent book might be expected to be, like the hastily-written volumes of so many other emigres, a keyhole explanation of recent events. But "Embezzled Heaven" is a much less shallow work than "Seven Mysteries" or "Why France Fell." It is essentially an analysis, a dissection of Teta Linek, the gnarled servant woman of pre-auschluss Austrian aristocrats. When her employers with all their culture and education were stamped out under the swastika, this sextagenarian could face the future with calmness...
They flew out of the snow, into fog and rain, then at 6:45 p.m. happily down to a shallow lake on Richard King's Santa Fe Ranch near Edinburg, 80 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. The officers slept in the plane, were found next morning by two cowboys who led them out of the desert brush to the ranch house. Then Murray Hanson learned what happened to the men who had jumped at his order. One was killed; his parachute had been torn from his body. One was unhurt. Three were injured and in hospitals at Big Spring...
...navigability, while multi-shaded, defines a navigable river in law as one which is navigable in fact.) The New had not been used for water commerce since the '90's; a great part of it was as unnavigable as a river can be: rocky, swift, extremely shallow...