Word: gath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East from the jagged wall of the Andes stretches the green, sealike wilderness of Bolivia's Oriente. In its lonely towns, descendants of Spanish aristocrats gravely toast the kings of Spain by candlelight; its brown-skinned, barefoot rubber gath, erers get their only view of the outside world from old film plays. In jungle-hemmed clearings jaguars and blood-sucking bats prey on the settlers' cattle. Along the region's sluggish, yellow rivers, savage bush Indians hunt heads and shoot arrows at low-flying airplanes. Occasionally, from the principal cities of Santa Cruz...
...sidewalk before his three-room suburban home, sipped unsugared mate (South American tea), and considered his lot. He was worried about the future. Argentine-born son of Italian immigrants, father of three, mild-mannered Pedro had worked for 20 years or more in the offices of Gath & Chaves, a big downtown department store. Until two years ago he earned $50 a month. Since then, Juan Perón's election-time decrees (and the store's voluntary raises) had upped his pay to $63. Still, had not living costs shot up three times faster than his salary...
...Gath & Chaves, crowds scattered, weeping and choking, as police tossed tear-gas bombs. "This can't go on much longer," groaned Juan Pueblo, the man in the street-and then remembered he had been saying the same things since the 1943 revolution...
...Board Dive--Won by McCutcheon (H); second, Gath (P); third, Pratt (P). Winner's points...
...hauled was chili peppers. That was how it got its name. But when busses and trucks began to compete, business on the Chili dwindled. Offi cials of the D.&R.G.W. asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon the line. Permission was granted, and last week the mourners gath ered, and wreckers moved in to "roll up" the track...