Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...
...Narain, Jinnah and their followers continued to pour oil on the troubled flames, even Mohandas K. Gandhi's genius for "neighborliness"-political and personal-might not be enough...
...fact that it was close to the mouth of the wide, serpentine Magdalena, chief communications line from coast to capital. (Cartagena's harbor is connected with the Magdalena by a canal.) Last year, Barranquilla handled 80% of the nation's exports of cotton, coffee and oil. On Colombia's Pacific side, filthy, swampy Buenaventura (literally, good luck) had made good its name: the outlet for the booming western industrial regions, Buenaventura accounted for almost half of Colombia's entire foreign trade...
...high-school girls - there were about 15 of them-were dressed for a tea party, but they carried long bundles containing paddles, and pails for vomiting. In the corner of the room one girl was mixing a drink out of castor oil, cold cooking grease, coffee grounds, raw oysters and mackerels' eyes...
...choked and retched. Two girls held her shoulders. They told her that if she vomited, she would have to drink it back. Some of the castor oil started coming out of her nose. The girls told her: 'You goat, you have to drink...