Word: cordillera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the advent of coffee in the second half of the 19th Century, the rich decomposed lava of the mountainsides suddenly sprouted wealth. The enormous Antioquian families (20 children were not unusual) began spilling along the Cauca River and the valleys of the Cordillera Central. The department of Caldas, colonized a few decades ago, produces more coffee than any other department today. The Antioquian peasant transplanted his democratic land system wherever he went: Caldas coffee farms are even smaller than those of southern Antioquia; the owners' families themselves pick the crop. Like the U.S., Colombia thus had a homesteading...
Both countries were happy over the deal, biggest of its kind in South America's history. The long-sought Cordillera Libre, a sort of limited trans-Andean customs union,* was established. Argentina agreed to lend Chile $175,000,000-$75 million for improving Chile's rail, road and sea links with Argentina, $75 million for Chilean industrial development, the rest for a revolving credit to get trade started...
Officials of Luzon, largest island in the Philippines, alarmed by inter-tribal strife, recently called a confab. Invited were the mountain tribesmen, who believed their hunting grounds were being encroached upon. Special word and promises of presents went out by jungle telegraph through the Cordillera range to the tribesmen...