Word: chile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anybody could come and tell his troubles to the President. Every Wednesday morning Gabriel González Videla cleared his desk, shooed away Cabinet Ministers, and for three hours held "Audiencias Populares." The sessions became so popular with Chile's Juan Pueblo that the waiting list soon reached...
Tunnel to Friendship. Argentina is predominantly agricultural, Chile a mountainous country of mines and forests. Their economies do not compete, although both harbor enough young, hothouse industries to preclude a 100% customs union. Chile, fighting inflation (TIME, Dec. 16), welcomed the ready cash to expand her industries-lumber, power, coal-welcomed still more a chance to buy cheaply from Argentina's ample supply of meat and other foodstuffs for her undernourished masses. Argentina badly needs Chile's coal, iron and copper to carry out Peron's ambitious five-year plan...
...deal revived talk of Juan Perón's pet idea of an Argentine-led "Bloque Austral" (Southern Bloc), including Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plan was temporarily shelved after Bolivians overthrew their pro-Perón Villarroel Government last July. But the Chileans, if they felt any fears of Argentine-domination, kept quiet about them. The press without exception praised the Argentine treaty, generally gave President González Videla high marks for starting the project. Said González himself: "There is absolutely no reason to fear Argentine economic penetration. . . ." Chileans obviously...
...Chile, which (like half a dozen other countries) claims a part of Antarctica and is its nearest neighbor, planned an expedition to "establish contact with that most remote corner of the national territory...
Exit Laughing. In Chile Island, Chile, Narcisco Quezada and Friend Violeta Munoz confessed that they had tied Violeta's husband to a table, tickled his feet until he choked to death with laughter...