Word: argenta
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...SherbetMaker's grievance: Antonio Pizzuco returned to Italy on a vacation last November, showed the authorities at Naples papers proving that he is a U. S. citizen. But at Argenta (near his native village) he was seized and impressed into the Italian Army...
...only men but gold emigrates to Argentina, which, paradoxically, was named by exploring Spaniards after the silver (argenta) which they expected but failed to find in her mountains. Last year Argentina borrowed more U. S. dollars than any other nation. Most of them she spent on developing the low-lying, fertile Pampas and the highland grazing grounds of Patagonia (see Map). To her especial credit is the fact that Argentina also spends millions on schools and public works, and possesses today the most literate population in South America...