Word: cerro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue side, the red-necks became front-line troops-in a tradition that was old at Cerro Gordo. Sweating, plastered with swamp mud, drenched with rain, they built bridges alongside spans that umpires' flags had marked blown up. They picked up tank mines, destroyed barricades, bridged rivers and bayous with pontons or spanned them with felled trees. When they had finished, Louisiana had more usable bridges than it had ever had before. All along the Blue front, fighting troops advanced to the scream of the engineers' power saws and the grunt of their powerful bulldozers...
Excuse for the silver-buying program and its artificial price floor (now 71.11? an ounce for domestic) was to keep Western miners at work. In the new U.S. shortage economy, this argument no longer holds even a drop of water. Therefore big mining companies (including Anaconda, Phelps Dodge, Cerro de Pasco) also have been seeking new industrial uses for silver as a hedge against possible repeal of the program. Some of their suggestions: substituting silver for copper in electrical contacts, using it with magnesium for lightweight alloys...
...first time that any winter sports team from the Southern. Hemisphere will over have crossed the Equator in search of competition. Teams from the United States, he added, visited Chile during our summers of 1937 and 1938 to participate in the Pan American Ski Championships held at Farellones del Cerro Colorado in the Andes...
Last week the Plunkett, Gilmer and Paul Jones asked identity and destination of two more vessels off Tampico, this time Latin-American merchantmen: the Mexican tanker Cerro Azul, inbound in ballast on a coastwise trip, and the Honduran freighter Ceiba out of New Orleans. In a story from Tampico smelling rankly of Nazi propaganda it was reported that the ships were boarded by U. S. sailors, their captains questioned, their papers checked, their cargo registries examined...