Word: bolivars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Nathan Hale and Simón Bolivar...
Misty-eyed Democrats, pouring in to say goodbye, found Harry Truman's White House office oddly naked last week. Down from the walls had come the portraits of Simón Bolivar and Ben Franklin, the etchings of early aircraft, the framed photographs of Sam Rayburn and Alben Barkley. Gone from the presidential desk were the familiar knickknacks-a piece of rock from the highest mountain in North America (Mt. McKinley: 20,270 ft.), the donkeys, and the desk photos. Said Harry Truman with rueful jocularity: "If I'd known how much packing I'd have...
...Revolutions. But as Bolivians themselves say, theirs has been a land of the future for four centuries. Since Bolivar won them independence, they have had 179 revolutions, an average of one every nine months. They have lost four wars and half of their territory. Their outlet to the sea was lost to Chile in the "War of the Pacific...