Word: rosada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ships and Sheep. Turning the problem over in his mind as he sat at his desk in the Casa Rosada,* Ramên Castillo had only to look out of the window to see one miserable aspect of it: Buenos Aires har bor, once South America's busiest port, almost deserted of shipping, with 18 German and Italian vessels lying at anchor as reminders of the pressure on him. Once an average of 150 ships a day put into Buenos Aires. Now there are about 26 a week. Of 400,000 tons of meat which Britain contracted for six months...
...winked at a plank in his platform promising honest elections, for they were used to winning by such practices as quarantining entire districts, placing voting booths in trucks which stopped only for Conservative voters, incapacitating opposition pollwatchers by sneaking laxatives into their food. But once settled in the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House, which is pink), President Ortiz brought down the wrath of his Conservative supporters by taking his platform seriously. Honest elections might have perpetuated the Radicals in power if he had not had to leave the Pink House in ill health...