Word: chile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Latin American department was off base in its comparison of the Portillo Hotel in Chile with our famous Sun Valley [TIME, Sept. 15]. You say the cost per person at Portillo Hotel is $9 a day with meals, while Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 per day without meals, with an inference that this cost is the lowest rate. This is definitely not correct. The lowest rates at Sun Valley Lodge last winter for single occupancy in bachelors' quarters were $6.50 a day without bath. . . . The rates at the Portillo Hotel range upward from...
Because hard-pressed Chile needed Lota's coal to keep railroads and power plants going, President Gabriel González Videla sent troops to Lota, used his emergency powers (TIME, Sept. 1) to order strikers back to the mines, offered a 40% wage increase. At week's end, the miners still stood fast...
Airlines have been slow to go for radar. The sets are expensive and cut payload. But this week the Peruvian International Airways started the first regularly scheduled passenger service (between New York and Santiago, Chile) completely safeguarded by radar. P.I.A.'s radars (made by General Electric) weigh 150 lbs. in all, but show a clear map of the country below. The pilot knows where he is-and where the obstacles are-in all weathers...
...didn't wanna do it. I didn't wanna do it!" screams Al. "I was swindled into it by this tremendous ego of mine. I'm like a chile, I tell yah! 'Al,' I said, 'Al, old fella, they wantcha again. They finally seen the light.' Oh Lawdy, I got 'em good. And I just couldn't resist rubbing their noses...
Victor F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck, Britain's ex-Ambassador to Poland (and, just before that, Ambassador-designate to Brazil), was out a job. The far-ranging diplomat broke into the news last spring when his infidelities in Chile, London, and Athens came out at his wife's divorce trial. Last week he was in the news again: he was quietly dropped from the Foreign Service after 25 years...