Word: pilcomayo
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...with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, ending in 1870, was a squabble with Argentina over her western boundary. The entire dispute was laid at the elastic-sided boots of President Hayes, who looked solemnly at many maps, listened to many arguments and finally awarded all the land between the Pilcomayo and the Verde rivers to Paraguay. Argentina accepted the award and President Hayes went down in South American history as a great peacemaker. Last week Paraguay stubbornly refused to allow any of the territory included in the original Hayes award to be discussed in arbitrating the present Chaco War. Bolivia, arguing...
Where Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina join on the map of South America lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British Explorer Julian Duguid has described the Pilcomayo as "a vast, foul-smelling, oozy stretch of bog with as much movement as an unsqueezed sponge. ... An Englishman may obtain some slight insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary...
...landlocked Bolivia it means a possible outlet to the sea. On the west Bolivia is only 75 miles from the Pacific but those 75 mountainous miles are owned by powerful, militaristic Chile. Bolivians think that they might be able to push ships through the unsqueezed sponge of the Pilcomayo down to the Paraguay and on to Buenos Aires and the Atlantic...
...sidelight cast upon the whole situation by famed Fight Tycoon Tex Rickard. "In 1913," said he last week, "I came up through the Argentine with twenty cowboys, 50,000 head of cattle and a train of about fifty wagons, with the idea of crossing into Paraguay across the Pilcomayo River, the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine. Well, as soon as we got into Paraguay we came across a lot of forts, all filled with Bolivians. And these Bolivians-soldiers they were-said that if we didn't turn back they'd shoot...