Word: plata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late autumn sun spread a dull sheen over the refuse-strewn waters of the Plata River. Slowly the small, grey minesweeper Drummond nudged against a deserted wharf. Down the gangway stepped a tired, disheveled, stubborn old man, Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, Vice President of Argentina from 1938 to 1940, Acting President from 1940 to 1942, President from 1942 until last week, President in Exile for one day, now ex-President...
Pedro Figari, well known in the La Plata capitals and European art circles, almost unheard-of in North America* never had any academic training. Born in Uruguay in 1861 of Italian parentage, he studied law, traveled in Europe, served in the Montevideo Parliament, in 1900 became attorney for the Bank of the Republic...
...wooden water gates and the interlocking channels of the 2,200-year-old irrigation system, installed a few years after Alexander invaded India, are still working this month. In Argentina on these hot midsummer days the crowds from Buenos Aires are swarming to the playground of Mar del Plata, to gamble in the biggest casino in the world. The earth that has been carrying war around the sun has carried as well the work and the relaxations, the moviegoing, horse racing, kiteflying, card-playing, visiting, talking, worshiping life...
...Puerto Plata...
...Argentine yachtsman, Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...