Word: andean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paraguay 100 miles away from Bolivia's rich oil fields. Most notable Bolivian gain, however, is a gateway to the sea through the Paraguay River. Ever since the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), in which Chile defeated the combined Peruvian-Bolivian armies, Bolivia has sat in her Andean aerie without a handy water outlet for her tin, silver and oil. Between Bolivia and the Pacific there were 75 miles of none-too-friendly Chile. The final arbitration in 1929 of the Tacna-Arica dispute between Peru and Chile, in which Bolivia had hoped for a corridor, gave Bolivia...
...water route to the Atlantic. Now Bolivia will have a small corridor between the Brazilian border and the new Paraguayan border (see map) to the Paraguay River, where she can build a port of her own. By filling in swampland, roads and railroads can be built from the Andean plateau to that port. From there Bolivian products can be transported down the broad Paraguay River into the Paraná River, then into the River Plata and finally into the Atlantic. Puerto Casado, further down the river in Paraguay, may also be made a free port...
Loaned for study and unwrapping by the Peruvian government, the mummy was one of a number collected by Julio C. Tello, Honorary Curator of Andean Archaeology. Alfred Kidder, instructor in Anthropology, is supervising research on the 1500-year old specimen...
Like the characters in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were united through the device of having them tumble to their death together when an Andean bridge collapsed, the characters in The Seven Who Fled are strung together only through the accident of their common expulsion, the similarity of their final nihilistic verdict on human affairs...
Baragwanath's two biggest adventures were finding some Inca treasure and buying a salted mine that cost his employers, American Mining & Smelting Co., $30,000. The Inca treasure turned up while he was hunting for coal on the Andean plateau east of Port of Salaverry, Peru. He saw some natives wading in a lake during a snowstorm, investigated, found they were taking out gold and silver ornaments. He jumped in with them and got 75 pieces, which he gave to the American Museum of Natural History...