Word: valparaiso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly a day passes throughout the year that four or five large passenger liners do not arrive in New York from Southampton, Le Havre, Hamburg, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Bremen. Glasgow, Cherbourg, Villefranche, Oslo, Valparaiso, Havana. And hardly a day passes that these ships do not set down on the Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel...
...peso was falling like a plummet, no foreign firm would take over the dam job. but Chileans decided to go ahead under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
Fortunately the Chilean epidemic is typhus of a type milder than the type that sometimes scourges Europe. Over 100 Santiagoans had died last week, but hundreds were recovering when Valparaiso, chief port of Chile, clamored for protection. President Alessandri's typhus fight ers established delousing stations on all roads leading out of the capital under a presidential decree declaring a state of siege. At these barriers simple pedestrians and their clothing were thoroughly disinfected, not without loud protests. Wealthier Santiagoans passed through on certificates issued by their doctors...
...operator who stirred up the Board of Trade was that most scorned of all speculators, a doctor. Edward A. Crawford, M. D., graduated in 1911 from the medical school of Valparaiso University, is not, however, a consulting room speculator. Some years ago he practiced medicine in Jacksonville, Fla., then moved to New Orleans, gave up writing prescriptions and began writing market orders. In 1919 with a small stake, said to have been $800 made on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, he shifted the scene of his unmedical operations to Manhattan...
...Chileans-which was puzzling. In Buenos Aires the trade demands Franchuchas (French prostitutes), reluctantly accepts such substitutes as Poles, scorns South American recruits. On the eight men letters were found which solved the puzzle. With elaborate Latin courtesy a Buenos Aires white slaver wrote to his "forwarding agent" in Valparaiso that he had been unable to get any French or European women sent over via Panama to be forwarded via Chile. Apologetically the slaver asked his agent to stoop to recruiting Chilean women. "The prying activities of the League of Nations," he wrote plaintively, "have been giving us trouble...