Word: plata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Travels of a Marine. The Smiths have been travelers, like all Marines: they lived in Bremerton, Seattle, Manila, Cavite, Shanghai, Puerta Plata, Norfolk, Newport, Port-au-Prince, Quantico, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Long Beach, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego. In one two-year stretch they moved 14 times...
...destroyer escort Christopher - all commanded by gruff, hearty, barrel-chested Vice-Admiral Jonas Howard Ingram. U.S. sailors swarmed ashore, paraded with Uruguayan sailors, enjoyed the "best shore leave we've had." U.S. bombers flew down from Brazil, established a base in Uruguay, roared over the La Plata estuary almost within hearing of Buenos Aires and its Colonels Government in Argentina...
Argentina has always believed that she ought to be mistress of the entire La Plata watershed, which includes all of Paraguay and parts of Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil. In a sense she has been, for most of the trade of the region has had to pass down river through her territory. This circumstance made Paraguay her vassal and forced the other countries to pay heavy tribute to Argentine railroads, river boats and ports of transshipment...
...Plata, where practically the entire (8,500) student body of the National University walked out, swashbuckling, militantly liberal University President Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios refused to dismiss six professors. When he received a second order, he resigned. The Vice President refused to accept the post, resigned likewise. So did the next two Councilmen in line. The mantle fell finally on the willing shoulders of nationalistic Dr. Ricardo Labougle. When he tried to speak to striking students, he was received with rotten eggs and firecrackers...
...fastest tunnel builder was hard a-boring once more last week. The man: 6-ft.-8-in. John Raymond Austin, 56, whose straggly grey hair and long, lined face give him the melancholy look of a bloodhound. The job: adding 6,200 ft. to an abandoned tunnel under La Plata divide, to make it possible to get zinc, lead and copper out of some lately unworked gold & silver mines...