Word: chile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chilean and U.S. engineers and technicians were working last week to make a 20-year-old Chilean dream come true. Two years ago, San Vicente had been a peaceful fishing village sought out by tourists for its seascapes and broad vistas of green forest stretching to the banks of Chile's largest river...
...Chile's mountain riches will supply the raw materials: ore from Bethlehem's El Tofo mines, 500 miles up the coast; coal from the undersea veins of nearby Lota; power from Fomento's hydroelectric plant at neighboring El Abánico. Only limestone has been a problem. To get it, a crew of 130 men, with rat-hungry cats, is now setting up installations on rainy, rat-infested Madre de Dios Island, 900 miles down the coast...
...Huachipato's pig-iron capacity of 205,000 metric tons makes it only half as big as Volta Redonda, and tiny by Pittsburgh standards. But the 235,000 tons of steel it is expected to turn out each year when full production is reached will make Chile virtually self-sufficient in steel...
Besides giving impetus to new mining, metalworking and fabricating industries, Huachipato will save Chile some $15 million a year in foreign exchange formerly spent on steel in the U.S. Said Huachipato's General Manager Desiderio Garcia: "This is the beginning of Chile's real industrial revolution...
...Emile Allais is still serious about his work. When he isn't skiing, he is designing skis, ski boots and even goggles for skiers. He now spends half the year teaching at his own school in Portillo, Chile, hopes eventually to have a school of his own in the U.S. But he doesn't expect to convert the whole Western Hemisphere to the French method; his partisans claim more for his technique than he does himself. Says he dryly: "I do not pretend to have invented skiing...