Word: caronies
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...finding a few diamonds, he would load his canoe with rum and float downriver, happily strumming the cuatro, his four-stringed guitar. Then some missionaries showed Agustín the error of his ways. "I put the cuatro and the rum in a sack and threw them into the Caroni River," he reported...
...runaways to an upgrade. Once off the hill and on a tamer grade, the 91-mile railroad winds through a palm-tufted savannah, a rocky badlands where flash floods can fill dusty ravines with ten feet of water in a few minutes, and finally a sandy semidesert to the Caroni river...
Standing on a dock edging the black Caroni River one day last week, Venezuela's President Marcos Perez Jimenez pressed a button, started a conveyer belt, and sent baseball-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...
...easy task. Giant power shovels (the first were arriving this month) will scoop up blasted ore and load it on to trucks which will carry it to the railway (now being built). The 10,000-ton ore trains will roll through the chaparral 90 miles northeast to the black Caroni River, tributary of the Orinoco. For the workers a new town, Ciudad Piar, is sprouting at the foot of Cerro Bolívar, and a new port, Puerto Ordaz, has already been built on the Caroni...