Word: titicaca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wishing to interfere, Bolivia's big-nosed, phlegmatic President José Luis Tejada Sorzano began behaving as if peace were as good as sealed, announced a "postwar reconstruction program'' to be featured by borrowing, if possible, $25,000,000. This will be spent tapping Bolivia's two-mile-high Lake Titicaca and using the water thus obtained to drive turbines which will whirl dynamos to supply current for the grandiose project of "electrifying all our railroads." Surplus water, according to the President, will be used for vast irrigation projects. The work is to be done by enigmatic Mauricio Hochschild, head...
...destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with an axe, used for fuel. Lake Titicaca, world's highest, where one suffers from seasickness and mountain sickness at the same time. Lima, founded on the Epiphany and shaped like a king cake. The not quite homicidal climate of the Canal Zone...
...amazing Peruvians with their airplane jaunts over the Andean ridge. From a base at Lima they have air-photographed the mountain folds, Inca ruins, and near Huancayo "the Great Wall" of Peru. Last week they and their two planes were at Arequipa, whence they will try to reach Lake Titicaca...