Word: patagonia
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...pressure on him. Once an average of 150 ships a day put into Buenos Aires. Now there are about 26 a week. Of 400,000 tons of meat which Britain contracted for six months ago, Britain has been able to move only some 75,000 tons so far. In Patagonia, where storage space is already crammed to capacity, 1,500,000 head of sheep cannot be slaughtered because there are no ships to take the mutton away. Yet soon they must be slaughtered anyway, to keep the rest of the herds from starving...
This was banned from the U. S. by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930), which prohibits importation from countries infected with hoof-&-mouth disease (Argentina is one. Others: Ireland and Britain- }. Patagonia, the southern part of Argentina, has never had hoof-&-mouth disease, is protected from the nation's chief cattle-growing regions by a mountain range and 200 miles of desert. The least Argentina expects from a Good Neighbor is permission to ship fresh meat from Patagonia. A convention negotiated by the sympathetic U. S. State Department in 1935 would give them this permission...
Never in world history has one man so dominated, so terrorized, so galvanized into action, or inaction, the people of the entire world. The lives and minds of men in faraway Patagonia, in Bengal, in Senegal and in Saskatchewan have been agitated by the moves of Adolf Hitler. His name hung like a pall over the U. S. political and economic scene of the year just closed and yet you say it was Churchill's year...
...Sept. 23] belongs to the same class as the young Americans who say there are no opportunities in the U. S. . . . That you have to go to New York or London if you want to reach the top, is equally true whether you live in Yorkshire, Manitoba, Texas or Patagonia. The larger centres offer the biggest opportunities...
...files again came an 80-page indictment. Into the jug again went Nazi Leader Arnulf Fuhrmann and seven of his disciples. Führer Fuhrmann cheerfully admitted hatching the plot, insisted it was just a joke. After reports had been published of Nazi plans to invade Patagonia, he chuckled, he had built up the hoax to tickle the ribs of his fellow Germans in Argentina...