Word: andes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wool, go to Europe. Argentina sends its flaxseed (84% of the world trade total), its wheat (23%), its corn (71%), its beef (50%) abroad. Bolivia's copper, lead and silver go abroad and most (80% ) of its tin-mined amid the ruins of the Inca Empire in the Andes-goes to Britain. Beef and wool from southern Brazil go to Europe. Except for some Paraná pine exported from Brazil to Argentina and Uruguay, exports of maté (South American tea) from Brazil and Paraguay to Argentina, and imports of Argentine cereals by Bolivia, Argentina's middleman business...
...Over the Andes to Peru" will be the subject of a free, public illustrated lecture tomorrow afternoon by Oliver P. Pearson, of Philadelphia, graduate student who traveled extensively in the Peruvian Andes and went down the Amazon River to its mouth. The lectures will be at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, at 4 o'clock...
Since then two U. S. teams have competed in the Pan American ski championships held in the Andes in 1937 and 1938. Du Bois, chairman of the Chilean Team Committee of the National Ski Association of America, is making all arrangements for the Chilean skiers tour...
...winter sports team from the Southern. Hemisphere will over have crossed the Equator in search of competition. Teams from the United States, he added, visited Chile during our summers of 1937 and 1938 to participate in the Pan American Ski Championships held at Farellones del Cerro Colorado in the Andes...
Since January 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tschopik, Jr. of the Museum, have been at work in the Aymara Indian village of Chucuito, in the Peruvian Andes, an ancient community which many authorities believe represents remnants of the original Andean culture, and which maintained its own culture in the fact of both Inca and Spanish political domination...