Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peru's Amazonian fields may be even richer than million-barrel-a-day Venezuela...
...ornately carved dark wood desk in Lima's graceful Presidential Palace, President José Luis Bustamante pored over a plan. It had been drawn up, at his request, by crack U.S. petroleum engineer Arthur Curtice. The plan was to throw Peru's important oil reserves open to foreign exploitation...
...bourbon-and-sodas, representatives of the world's major oil companies also studied the supposedly secret Curtice plan. They grumbled at proposed royalties that would resemble the prevailing Venezuelan scale of 16⅔%. Such percentages, they said, were fair enough in proven fields like Venezuela, but high for Peru, where exploration costs are probably the highest in the world and where the trans-Andean pipeline to bring oil out to the west coast might cost...
...another shuffle of its South American representatives, the State Department switched 49-year-old William Douglas Pawley from Peru to Brazil, to fill the spot recently vacated by Adolf Berle Jr. Swashbuckling Bill Pawley* began a fabulous, up-&-down career at 18 by selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers, more recently helped organize the famous Flying Tigers. He once modestly remarked: "Unquestionably I have been one of the prime contributors to China's defense." As Ambassador to Peru he earned the respect and awe of the Bustamante Government. He, too, was the personal choice of Spruille Braden...
...women of intellectual power have visited Buenos Aires without finding their way to the Ocampo salon. At her Mar del Plata villa, brought beam-by-beam from England, or her San Isidro ancestral home where San Martin once plotted Peru's and Chile's liberation, the high talk proceeds preferably in French. "Since infancy," says Victoria, "in the whispering of Argentine alfalfa and wheat I have heard the sound of French verses...