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Word: tacora (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cars, the most notable rolling relics are colectivos, taxibuses plying regular routes from Lima's working-class slums to market. Driver Andrés Barreto says he was lucky to have bought his six-cylinder 1929 Packard Diplomat. "I just happened to be in the Tacora junkyard when a fellow drove up in this car. I tell you I got a bargain. That was eleven years ago, and this car makes at least $7.25 a day for me. I carry as many as twelve passengers and bags of potatoes, green corn, fish, small pigs and goats, live chickens. Sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Life Begins at 30 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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