Word: chile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chileans could expect a shower of sparks for the next six years. If Congress approved charming, explosive Gabriel Gonzalez Videla's 50,000-vote plurality (not a majority) in last week's elections, Chile would be getting its liveliest president in many a political moon...
...your article on Chile (TIME, Aug. 19) you refer to a place where "each year more babies die than are born." It seems to me that to achieve that they would have to import babies from other more fortunate places...
...fortunes were low. His attempt to blackmail the new Bolivian Government by holding up needed wheat shipments had flopped. The U.S. had stepped in, agreed to send Bolivia enough wheat to see the year out. Paraguay had slipped from under the Argentine thumb, showed some stirrings of democracy. Chile and Uruguay were going ahead with democratic election campaigns. Perón's dream of a Bloque Austral (southern bloc) had folded-for the moment. But Juan Domingo was still trying. Last week he signed a new trade treaty with Ecuador, got a preferential deal on natural rubber for Argentina...
Mexican painting is as familiar to U.S. art lovers as chile con carne, but the only Canadian art most Americans see are the Indian chiefs and yellow wheat fields on railway posters. This week a handsome book on the subject (Canadian Painters; Oxford University Press, $6.50), appeared to dispel the northern mist...
Born in Baltimore, Marie Schultze won her R.N. in three years' hard work at Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, was sent to Chile in 1927 by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. In Santiago, she turned an old artist's studio in the slums into a six-bed clinic. To persuade the poor, superstitious women that they should have their children at the clinic, tall, good-natured Nurse Schultze gave free care for the first six months of her new enterprise in charity...