Word: chile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chile, in the midst of Navy war games, declared it would be strictly neutral in the sale of its murderous nitrates and essential copper. Chile was far and away the biggest South American exporter during World...
Catching two broadbill in one day, extraordinary though it is, is not unprecedented. Two other big-game anglers have landed two in one day: Briton W. E. S. Tuker off Tocopilla, Chile and Calif ornian J. W. Jump off Catalina Island. What made last week's catch an unparalleled achievement was the fact that Angler Lerner had done it for the second time-one day in 1936, in the same waters, he caught a 535-pounder and a 601-pounder (a North American record...
...different was the war experience of Chile. Her big exports were nitrates (essential for explosives) and copper, another important war necessity. After the first disruption of the War gave her a bad setback in the fall of 1914, she rode on the crest of the wave. Her Government, which depended largely on export duties, was flush. Her mines prospered. Her export balance, which amounted to $300,000,000 in 1913, jumped to over $1,500,000,000 in 1917. In the four years of the War her export balances reached...
Cuba's sugar millionaires in 1919 became sugar paupers by 1921 and Cuba suffered severe depression. Chile's Wartime profits in nitrates and copper were followed by post-War losses that wrecked her economy. U. S. farmers, who during the War period had sold all the grain that they could raise, found themselves in the post-War depression with crops they could not sell and progressively went bankrupt all through the twenties. The depression of 1929 was the culmination of this struggle for markets...
Shanghai '37 is Novelist Baum's usual chile con carne ("her eyes went on a pleasure cruise up and down him"), seasoned with local color, a but-life-goes-on philosophy. Curtain sentence: "What must happen, happens." Thanks to Japanese bombs that fell on the Shanghai Hotel when war came, Author Baum's ending has more finality than usual...