Word: waterway
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...whether Turkey would fight side by side with Britain remained to be seen. And how Soviet Russia felt about the Nazi threat to Russia's one waterway to the Mediterranean-the Dardanelles-was a secret that remained in the head of Joseph Stalin. A great and foreboding moment in World War II had arrived-and the imponderables were correspondingly great...
...Waterway. Twelve months a year freight service reaches 1,700 miles up the Paraná-Paraguay, 650 miles farther than the run from New Orleans to St. Louis on the Mississippi. Since existing rail lines are long and expensive, connect the Plata nations to Buenos Aires but not to each other, it is the only transportation system linking all the Plata basin. But the Plata bloc has used this waterway almost exclusively to carry trade abroad. Canned and frozen beef from Uruguay's frigorificos (packing plants) and saladeros (salting plants), as well as most of Uruguay's wool...
...Arnulfo Arias is a young and patriotic man who fears his native land is losing its identity. He has seen most of its retail business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence in English. Finally, he has found that...
...Brazil's Dictator Getulio Vargas. It is not particularly concerned about Paraguay, where President Higinio Morinigo has declared himself dictator. But Paraguay is far away and Brazil is a pretty good clip, while the Republic of Panama, less than half as far, sits astride the most strategic waterway in the world...
...Buenos Aires, biggest newspaper in South America. His guests were two good friends, Foreign Minister Julio Argentino Roca of Argentina and Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay. They went there, not so much to hunt as to discuss the defense of the Western Hemisphere's most strategic waterway south of the Panama Canal: the Rio de la Plata, which in English means River of Silver, though the English call it River Plate...