The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 49National Geographic Society, 1926 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... feet , Pigeon's . 557 Red Snow : Greenland . 528-529 387 Purumame Falls , Uraricoera River , Brazil . Purús River , Amazon tributary ...... 449 , 453 , ill . 450 Putumayo country , Amazonia : Huitoto Indian .. ill . 461 Pyramids , Egypt ...
... feet , Pigeon's . 557 Red Snow : Greenland . 528-529 387 Purumame Falls , Uraricoera River , Brazil . Purús River , Amazon tributary ...... 449 , 453 , ill . 450 Putumayo country , Amazonia : Huitoto Indian .. ill . 461 Pyramids , Egypt ...
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... feet high , and in such a storm it seemed folly to at- tempt it . There was still time to consider the matter ; the mail was not yet in . STARTING AN ENGINE IN BELOW - ZERO WEATHER Out in the meager shelter of the tem- porary hangar ...
... feet high , and in such a storm it seemed folly to at- tempt it . There was still time to consider the matter ; the mail was not yet in . STARTING AN ENGINE IN BELOW - ZERO WEATHER Out in the meager shelter of the tem- porary hangar ...
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... feet . This forty - mile breeze has been picking up dust off a hundred miles of snow - covered prairie , and it's traveling too fast to let go . That's why , on the ground , you can't see a hundred feet across the field . But ' upstairs ...
... feet . This forty - mile breeze has been picking up dust off a hundred miles of snow - covered prairie , and it's traveling too fast to let go . That's why , on the ground , you can't see a hundred feet across the field . But ' upstairs ...
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... feet above sea level while crossing the Sierra Nevada ( known in Air Mail parlance as " The Hump " ) . This transcontinental service is daily and , together with the added New York - Chicago overnight service , the scheduled yearly ...
... feet above sea level while crossing the Sierra Nevada ( known in Air Mail parlance as " The Hump " ) . This transcontinental service is daily and , together with the added New York - Chicago overnight service , the scheduled yearly ...
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... feet above the sea , has more than once clutched hungrily at a fleeting plane , only to have the pilot slip through its icy fingers . There Jack Knight had been caught in the canyon winds and flung against the mountain side , into a ...
... feet above the sea , has more than once clutched hungrily at a fleeting plane , only to have the pilot slip through its icy fingers . There Jack Knight had been caught in the canyon winds and flung against the mountain side , into a ...
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