Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argentina. Drought since last May in several northern provinces, damaging flax and wheat crops by 30%, induced Catholic Bishops to order general prayers for rain...
Brissac's sartorial brilliance was all due to the will of the late Rufus Barlow. Born in New Canaan, Conn, many years ago, wiry little Rufus Barlow became a jockey, then a horse trainer, finally a bookmaker. One or another of his positions took him to Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, China and India before he reached France as trainer for the great Gautier racing stables at Bordeaux. His hobby was to collect costumes from each country he visited...
...about wheat, and the world Press regarded the beginning of their deliberations with marked skepticism-for the first three days with considerable justice. The framework for an international agreement to cut wheat production for two years by 15% in each of the great exporting countries-Canada, U. S., Australia, Argentina-had been drawn up early in the summer by U. S. Delegate Henry Morgenthau (TIME, July 3 et seq.). Now the wheat importing nations seemed to be doing everything possible to wreck it by insisting on their rights to maintain quota restrictions and subsidies for their farmers. Suddenly came...
...miracle of a transatlantic telephone conversation, across the mighty Andes, across the pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars. Bristling, pastel-colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback...