Word: bolivares
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...sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...
...underground station for 600 buses and a garage for 1,600 cars at Centre Bolivar, a half-completed development of skyscrapers and apartment buildings often compared to New York's Radio City...
...area rich in coffee, fruit and flowers, but its 15,000 farmers are poor because, for lack of roads, the produce must be hauled out inefficiently over mule paths. To remedy this situation, the society last March resolved to buy a roadbuilding tractor. "Even the poorest farmhands gave a bolivar (30^), and one rich man sent 10,000," said Pablo Jose Tamayo, president of the society. "But he who gave 10,000 is neither more nor less the owner than the man who gave only one." Last August, having raised 95,000 bolivars, the Friends ordered an International Harvester...
...banks' paying 3% interest on minimum balances . . . cooks earning $10.50 a day, etc. . . . Some banks do pay 1% interest but that is all. A good cook may earn Bs. 10 or Bs. 12 per day, but since a bolivar is worth about 30?, you can figure out what her actual earnings...
Slowly all the poetry went out of piro-peando. In recent years, girls have had to listen to such blunt acclaim as "Hey, Mamacita!" or "What a chicken!" In disgust, Maracaibo's prefect made piropos punishable with a loo-bolivar ($30) fine, which brought a new piropo into fashion: "If I only had 100 bolivars...