Word: andes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Scale Peruvian Andes...
Next January, Argentina's Juan Perón and President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile will meet in the shadow of the Christ of the Andes, which was erected in 1904 to mark the peaceful solution of their boundary dispute. There they will sign a newer and more practical symbol of amity: the $175,000,000 trade agreement between Argentina and Chile completed last week in Buenos Aires...
...grant of a free port at Chilean Valparaiso, Perón got another thing he dearly wanted: an outlet on the Pacific. There Argentines planned soon to build port installations and a big meatpacking plant. Another result of the accord: a vehicular tunnel will be driven right through the Andes...
...Venezuela. On the far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...
...most democratic election in Venezuela's history. In the remote cattle towns of the Andes, in the boisterous oil camps of the coast, more than a million citizens queued up to choose the 160 members of a Constituent Assembly that would write a new constitution (Venezuela's 19th) and elect a new Provisional President...