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Word: tractorista (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assignment. A job was the first thought of the immigrants who waited last week in two reception centers in Caracas: Guaratero, a converted five-story hotel, and Sarria, a group of 17 Quonset huts. A curly-haired Pole, 19, announced proudly that he was a tractorista, that he was ready to start work on one of the cooperative farm colonies organized by the Government in the fertile interior to grow corn, potatoes, beans, rice, coffee, tobacco. An Italian with a shy little wife and black-eyed little girl was to go to a privately owned hacienda in Carabobo. Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Greener Mansions | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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