Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver...
...Pots of Silver. Land reform, that ever-popular rallying cry, was not responsible for the estancieros' downfall. They were victims of history and their own excesses. The original estancias were carved from the wilderness in the early 19th century by an adventurous breed of Spanish, British, Italian and Irish immigrants. Their sons and grandsons made their own legends by squandering the wealth. Argentines knew them as ninos bien, the wellborn children...
Some lived in Spanish castles and French cháteaux so opulently furnished that even the chamber pots were made of silver. Nearly every tree on the pampas was laboriously planted by man. The ultimate status symbol was a eucalyptus-tree drive leading up to the manse, and some of them ran straight as a string for seven miles...
...jolt-free quiet over continuously welded tracks. Its 100-m.p.h., all-first-class superexpresses, like the Dortmund-Munich Rheinpfeil (Rhine Arrow), offer such amenities as a four-course dinner for less than $2.50, worldwide telephone service, and multilingual secretaries at $1.50 an hour. There is even a female Silberputzer (silver cleaner) to keep chrome polished and to dust the aisles. On regular expresses, second-class passengers can count on spotlessly clean cars and hot meals in a diner. Last year 20,000 motorists stowed both themselves and their autos aboard overnight trains, slept their way to their destinations. No wonder...
...Torreón branch and took more than 150,000 pesos; later that year the revolutionary forces of Victoriano Huerta robbed the Durango branch of 100,000 pesos. A few years later, when the bank's entire executive staff refused to hand over all its gold and silver bars to President Venustiano Carranza, he jailed them and virtually closed the bank for five years...