Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directly south of and adjoining Rio de Janeiro is the rich coffee state of Sao Paulo, and against this region rebel columns from the three states still further south advanced last week. As commander-in-chief of the rebels there emerged General "Lucky Juan" Alberto Barros, veteran of several Brazilian rumpuses...
...Diver Alberto: "Stop! I'm on the bottom. ... I can make out something vast. . . . It's the end of a ship's hull. ... I can see the taffrail...
...Director Alberto (hopping with excitement): "How many rails...
...Diver Alberto: "Three. It's a big ship. I can't see the deck. . . . Now I can see something. It looks like a crane...
Pandemonium on the Artiglio. The gold-bearing Egypt carried easily distinguishable hydraulic cranes of a type no longer used. Diver Alberto came up, Director Alberto went down. So did several other divers. In short order the wreck was identified as the Egypt. Deep in a jungle of seaweed, blurred with brown moss it was unmistakably the Egypt. Bottles were opened on the Artiglio that night, guitars and banjos were strummed...