Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's biggest gambling palace is having its biggest season. On a single day last week, 16,480 Argentines entered Mar del Plata's huge oceanside casino, left $160,000 in the tills. Every evening 10,000 players packed the $70 million main gambling hall and spilled into the newly opened annex across the street...
...del Plata's boom was brought by: 1) Argentina's hottest summer in 16 years; 2) currency difficulties that kept most Argentines away from Uruguay's resorts; 3) plenty of inflated pesos. Some of the pesos were flung away by newly rich industrialists plunging at punto y banco, a South American version of baccarat. But most of the money came from the pockets of vacationing descamisados, who preferred roulette. The casino's main hall looked like Macy's basement as players pushed and shoved to bet at the 71 roulette tables. Most of them ignored...
...Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at his right hand. But down the hall at Government Palace, four assistants busily cleared Miranda's belongings out of his office, and at week's end Miranda flew off to play on the beach at Uruguay's Punta del Este...
...reading newspapers in the middle of the street. Once, interrupted in his meditations by a horn insistently honking in the Piazza Venezia below, Mussolini shouted an order that all "acoustic signaling" be forthwith prohibited in Rome. Romans whispered sadly that their "city of noise" had become the città del silenzio...
Commercial airlines are also boning up on G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) at six installations in the U.S. (New York, Chicago, Washington, Indianapolis, Wilmington, Del. and Arcata, Calif.). They hope to have it in widespread use eventually...