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  • This means that the Quebracho forests are being depleted at the rate of half a million tons per annum for export purposes alone, in addition to the enormous quantities used for sleepers, etc., in the country.

    Argentina from a British Point of View Various

  • Quebracho can be shipped by water and is therefore more economical, and for the varieties of leather we tan here it answers the purpose as well.

    The Story of Leather Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • Quebracho, a hardline left wing group behind the HSBC protest, vowed to target a different British business every week as the relationship between the two countries plummeted to its lowest ebb since the conflict 30 years ago.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Barney Henderson 2012

  • Pacheco, an Argentine who manages the restaurant Quebracho.

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2010

  • In the region of Quebracho, in the eastern part of the country, the military shot out the tires of eleven buses heading for Tegucigalpa.

    The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely 2009

  • Quebracho group; another was found to be carrying a sevillana, a kind of knife that's quite unsuitable for peeling apples or slicing bread. demonstration by various left wing groups going on outside the Israeli embassy.

    Atlas Shrugs 2009

  • (_a_) Quebracho solution: light reddish-brown filtrate, 3.22 gm.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

  • Quebracho woodland is more open than thorn forest, and is characterized by thorny bushes (e.g.,

    Chaco 2007

  • [Illustration: _Square Quebracho Logs worked by the Axeman, showing

    Argentina from a British Point of View Various

  • "Quebracho is a tree something like the lignum-vitæ and grows in South America.

    The Story of Leather Sara Ware Bassett 1920

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