Word: chileans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of economies uncharted in previous U.S. history, was brilliant. His first job was to provide raw materials. With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain. In effect, he invented...
...reorganizing his Cabinet, President Rios dropped cousin Morales, but not without bitter words for "politicians" who "occupy their time frustrating" public officials. To the Interior Ministry he appointed the Commander in Chief and Director General of the Chilean Navy, pro-Allied Vice Admiral Julio Allard
Pinto. To the next important portfolio, Defense, he assigned equally pro-Allied General Oscar Escudero Otarola, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army. Thus in the new Chilean Government the military gained strongly at the expense of the politicians...
...into the future and the past and the thoughts of men; he cured sick llamas and women & children, got rid of bad ghosts and made things tough for his enemies. In the small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines near the Chilean and Peruvian borders, his name was spoken with reverence. On festive days thousands of Indians crowded Lake Titicaca's shores, watched in awe and admiration as Paka-Jake swam: no mortal, sensible Indian would think of swimming in the holy water which is also ice cold...
Chile greeted him at Santiago's Los Cerillos airport with the Chilean Air Force band, playing The Star-Spangled Banner. All parties, from Conservative to Communist, signed a joint manifesto urging popular acclaim for Wallace. The masses' answer: 25,000 Chileans cheered him in front of his residence in Santiago. Next day he addressed the Chilean Congress, warmly patted President Juan Antonio Ríos and Chile's Popular Front: ". . . Now the great masses [of Chile] advance toward a fuller liberty. Its people are on a revolutionary march to affirm this land as one of dignity...