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...continuation of the pampas. Few regions, even in Argentina, have been so nearly ruined by economic dislocation. Almost at a standstill are exports of quebracho bark and the tanning extract derived from it, and of the Chaco's famed, strange-sounding woods: algarrobo, lapacho, guayabo, guayacdn, caranday, ybird-pyita, ñandubay, aguai, tatané, palo santo, palo de rosa, palo de lanza. And the "white gold," cotton, has proved fool's gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Hitler in the Jungle | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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