Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every South American country. Last week the seamy featured old President received with relish the news that Scout Carlos Arturo Zembrana is still walking still the favorite to win the $10,000 prize. Aged 11, Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the extreme northern tip of Chile, the jungles of embattled Bolivia and Paraguay and on to Argentina's spacious, glittering Buenos Aires where he arrived last week aged 14, approximately at the halfway mark ot his walk. With at least another 4,000 miles of tramping ahead of him, Scout...
...need of having an observatory in the southern hemisphere if they wished to study the entire heavens became apparent. The one in Cambridge could only photograph the region of the sky in what in called the North Colestial Pole, so a station was established in Arequipa, Peru, for photographic work on the southern skies...
...Peru, there was a cloudy period that lasted two months during which it was impossible to secure any photographs, so that same year they decided to change the location of the observatory to a place where there was no cloudy season. It was then they founded a station in Bioem Fontein, Orange Free State, South Africa...
Subject to ratification by the eight governments concerned, the agreement would bind "India, China and Spain as holders of large stocks of silver and . . . Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru as the principal producers of silver" not to dump the white metal on the world market for the next four years. Sales of surplus silver by the holding nations would be reduced to about the same extent that the producers agree to withhold silver from the world market by purchasing it for their treasury reserves of coin or bullion...
...grimy little port on the Upper Amazon, named by a romantic engineer for a Miss Leticia Smith (who married someone else), Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922. Its population remained predominantly Peruvian...