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Last week were added to American & Foreign Power's roster seven more names, the most important being Mendoza, fourth largest city in Argentine. Mendoza, "Gateway to Chile," is the centre.of the famed Western Argentine wine district. Other new American & Foreign Power Co. customers: Mar del Plata, San Pedro. San Nicolas, Junin, Azul, San Luis, all in the Province of Buenos Aires, rich in cattle and crops...
Citizens of Villa Atuel in prosperous wine-growing Mendoza Province awoke one night last week with a great roaring in their ears. Houses fell. The earth swelled and cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst earthquake of recent South American times, an earthquake that shook the needle of Harvard's seismograph in New England almost 6,000 miles away, broke submarine telegraph cables off the coast of Norway. The outward focus of the disturbance was a new volcano which had burst like an inflamed...
Relief trains rushing to aid the stricken Mendoza vintners encountered great fissures in the earth, filled with spouting, boiling water...
...days out, the complete Hoover itinerary was announced (see Map, p. 18) -Amapala (Honduras), La Union (Salvador), Corinto (Nicaragua), Puntarenas (Costa Rica), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Callao and Lima (Peru), Valparaiso, Santiago and Los Andes (Chile), Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uraguay), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Havana, perhaps Mexico, perhaps Texas, to Florida...
Died. Maria Guerrero de Diaz de Mendoza, famed star of Spanish and South American stages, sometimes called "the Sarah Bernhardt of Spain," in Madrid...