Word: plata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blonde housekeeper dusted provincial furniture, straightened somber religious pictures, made an old-fashioned brass bed. Icy rains had brought autumn to Argentina, and the master of the house in the Calle Juncal, Ramon S. Castillo, was moving in from his suburban quinta in Martinez beside the Rio de la Plata. In the domed Palacio del Congreso, Acting President Castillo's political housekeepers were similarly occupied. They swept out the debris of one of the most extraordinary sessions any legislative body had ever held, made ready for the opening of a new session of Congress this month. At this session...
...Surpluses piled up. Fortnight ago, in Montevideo, their delegates sat down at a round table to figure a way out. Present were representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia; as observers, the U. S., Chile and Peru. The meeting called itself the first Regional Conference of the Plata River...
...weft which bound their interests together was the Plata network (see map) of rivers flowing across an area nearly half the size of continental U. S. The Plata itself is a muddy, shallow estuary funneling down from a 25-mile-wide neck above Buenos Aires to a 138-mile-wide mouth in the Atlantic. Into it flow the Uruguay and the Paraná-Paraguay rivers. The Uruguay cuts south from Brazil for 1,000 miles, separating the northern tongue of Argentina from Uruguay and Brazil. To the west is the 2,200-mile Paraná. Starting in the highlands...
...Waterway. Twelve months a year freight service reaches 1,700 miles up the Paraná-Paraguay, 650 miles farther than the run from New Orleans to St. Louis on the Mississippi. Since existing rail lines are long and expensive, connect the Plata nations to Buenos Aires but not to each other, it is the only transportation system linking all the Plata basin. But the Plata bloc has used this waterway almost exclusively to carry trade abroad. Canned and frozen beef from Uruguay's frigorificos (packing plants) and saladeros (salting plants), as well as most of Uruguay's wool...
After hundreds of Argentines took excursions across the Plata estuary to Uruguay to see The Great Dictator, it opened after all in Paraná, 410 miles up the river from Buenos Aires, in the tough, independent-minded Argentine State of Entre Rios...