Word: chile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five minutes behind schedule, a trimotored Pan American-Grace plane roared down the field, bounced aloft last week in Lima, Peru, southbound for Santiago. Chile with nine passengers and a crew of three.* About 150 ft. up the port motor cut out. The centre motor sputtered. With flying speed almost gone, the pilot tried to turn back. The big airliner shuddered, dived into the ground. On board was Manuel Trucco, leathery Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., on his way from Washington to Santiago where his wife had died. Ambassador Trucco suffered a broken pelvis. His pretty daughter Grace...
...mongers had something new to talk about last week-nitrate shipments from Chile to Europe through the Panama Canal. In January 1933, 2,238 tons of the stuff that fires guns as well as fertilizes fields passed through the Canal. Last January nitrate shipments leaped up to 146,167 tons. For the first three weeks of February 93,604 tons were carried through in twelve ships, compared to 33,259 tons for the entire month last year. Half the shipments were under blind sailing orders to the Azores where they would be told their final destination. Westward through the Canal...
...Latin American diplomats to his office, told them that he thought the Cuban Government of President Mendieta was ripe for recognition, that he intended to recognize Cuba the next day (see p. 23). The diplomats were delighted at such unusual courtesy. After reaching home Ambassador Trucco of Chile and Minister Lozano of Colombia telephoned friendly diplomats to find out what the President had said, inasmuch as they understood no English...
...correspondents were concerned, when Argentine rebels shot up several rural areas and President Justo, after placing the entire nation under a "state of siege" clapped on all news the tightest censorship in years. Private cables assured the State Department that its chief was safe, proceeding with Mrs. Hull to Chile where he will sail home up the west coast of South America (he sailed down the east coast). According to President Justo, who had Argentine news decidedly all his own way, the series of rebellions was "crushed." It was started, he charged, by friends of the late but deathlessly popular...
...territory, comprising jungles and waste land for the most part. Unfortunately for Paraguay it borders on the Paraguay River. Hence, if Bolivia could gain control of it she would have a much coveted outlet to the sea, the lack of which has been keenly felt by that country since Chile closed the Pacific to her. Paraguay naturally is none too eager to see such an extension of Bolivian power in her back yard. The result is the present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost completely demolished the southern army of Bolivia just prior...