Word: quebracho
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Argentine Chaco is in the far north of the country, a subtropical continuation of the pampas. Few regions, even in Argentina, have been so nearly ruined by economic dislocation. Almost at a standstill are exports of quebracho bark and the tanning extract derived from it, and of the Chaco's famed, strange-sounding woods: algarrobo, lapacho, guayabo, guayacdn, caranday, ybird-pyita, ñandubay, aguai, tatané, palo santo, palo de rosa, palo de lanza. And the "white gold," cotton, has proved fool's gold...
Good Neighbor's Problem. What the Argentine Government would do to help the Chaco was not known last week. The delegation that went to Buenos Aires suggested lowering the tree-felling tax to cut costs so that quebracho users would buy for inventory, thereby absorbing some of the unemployed in the quebracho industry. That would alleviate a little of the misery...
...southern Brazil, it curls around the low hills in Paraguay's southeastern corner, where the Guarani Indians first named it "Mother of the Sea," then heads south through Argentina to the Plata. The Paraguay rises in the sluggish swamps of the Mato Grosso, flows between heavy stands of quebracho trees through the heart of Paraguay, joins the Paraná where it enters Argentina...