Word: quebracho
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...wife has to carry it home. He hates to garden, so subtropical Asunción imports most of its vegetables. He makes an average $6 a year selling cotton, the hides of cattle, yerba mat é(for Argentina's tea-like national drink) and tannin from quebracho. Politics is pretty new to him, and the big talk of an alliance with Argentina in a bloque austral is outside his world. But if Argentines, or anybody else, get fresh, he is perfectly confident that with a few other Paraguayans he can take care of the situation...
...industrial and commercial workers (13,171). The annual per capita income of the 1¼ million population is only $6. Because there is just one 274-mile railway and little more than 500 miles of improved roads, oxcarts still carry the bulk of the country's cotton, tobacco, quebracho extract (tannin...
...last week's resolutions the distorting phrase, "Nazis, Fascists, and Communists." In an attempt to stampede the conference, the Argentine Gendarmeria Nacional made the timely "discovery" of a 9,000-member "Communist" organization in the Chaco, where any labor-organizing of the exploited semi-serfs in the quebracho camps is promptly smeared as Communist. The delegates smiled politely, remained unimpressed...
...Argentine Chaco is in the far north of the country, a subtropical 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...
Good Neighbor's Problem. What the Argentine Government would do to help the Chaco was not known last week. The delegation that went to Buenos Aires suggested lowering the tree-felling tax to cut costs so that quebracho users would buy for inventory, thereby absorbing some of the unemployed in the quebracho industry. That would alleviate a little of the misery...