Word: chileans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to some boosters of Government health insurance, Chile provides a better system of medical care for its people than the U.S. This week an able Chilean, who should know, flies home from Manhattan after a visit to U.S. medical centers. Young, vivacious Dr. Eduardo Cruz Coke (rhymes with coke), author of Chile's national health law, told reporters how Chile watches after the health of its 5,000,000 citizens. Some hows...
...Chilean workers are obliged to belong to autonomous Cajas, or occupational guilds, through which medical care is administered. There are 20 to 30 such guilds in the country. Largest is the laborers' Caja, with a membership of 1,200,000. Each worker contributes from 3 to 10% of his wages to his Caja every month. Employers match or exceed this payment, and in some cases the Government adds a small percentage. For this fee a worker gets not only medical care but insurance against several or all of the following (according to the rules of his Caja): 1) sickness...
Emphasizing Chile's cooperation with other countries in national and inter national affairs. His Excellency, Don Rudolfo Michels, Chilean Ambassador, traced the political, economic, social, and cultural advances of his country since 1890 in a lecture in Lowell House Junior Common Room last evening...
...Only Argentina and Chile delayed action, but in Argentina, where there are 16 Axis ships, a bill ordering their confiscation was before the Chamber of Deputies. The Chilean Navy started hunting for a launch that was reported refueling a German raider somewhere near the Strait of Magellan...
...correspondents in South America watch like hawks the movements of stout, well-fed Baron Edmund von Thermann. German Ambassador to Argentina. But last fortnight he gave them the slip. He suddenly turned up in Santiago, Chile. Even the Chilean Foreign Office was caught off base; it barely had time to get an official to the airport to greet the Ambassador. Baron von Thermann blandly explained that he was traveling unofficially, was on his way to the Chilean lake country for a vacation. He carried a very heavy suitcase...