Word: weft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weft which bound their interests together was the Plata network (see map) of rivers flowing across an area nearly half the size of continental U. S. The Plata itself is a muddy, shallow estuary funneling down from a 25-mile-wide neck above Buenos Aires to a 138-mile-wide mouth in the Atlantic. Into it flow the Uruguay and the Paraná-Paraguay rivers. The Uruguay cuts south from Brazil for 1,000 miles, separating the northern tongue of Argentina from Uruguay and Brazil. To the west is the 2,200-mile Paraná. Starting in the highlands...