Word: chileans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chileans had it easiest. Their shortend stretch-204 miles out of a total of 559-rises gently from the sea through nitrate fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter...
Errors, as you know from reading the Letters column, come in for their full share of attention, too, but we have received a letter from a Chilean reader who complains that, try as he will, he can't find any in TIME. He is inclined to believe that you have to be an expert in your field in order to spot one. The record does not always bear him out-although when TIME does make an error, we usually hear from the experts first. Recently, we heard from one five years late. He wrote in to say that...
...editing of the resolutions, C.I.T.'s newly elected president, mild-mannered Chilean Socialist Bernardo Ibáñez, would have a big voice. Said he: "We are absolutely not going to use C.I.T. as a political instrument . . . the way Lombardo and the Communists used C.T.A.L. [the Latin American Federation of Labor]. We aim only at bettering the workers of America...
...worked most of his 45 years at bettering the workers' lot. As a country schoolteacher, he organized Chile's first teachers' union. Back in Chile in 1936, after he had been wounded fighting the Franco forces at Madrid, he organized the Chilean Workers Federation (C.T.Ch.), which he soon made one of the most powerful in Latin America. At a labor conference in Mexico he became a friend of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, and returned to Chile with such a Mexican accent and so many scrapes, that Chileans still call him El Mexicano...
...years ago, Chile's Communists cracked the "popular front" and walked out of Ibáñez' C.T.Ch. to found a federation of their own. Ibáñez fought back, breaking with Lombardo and C.T.A.L., but he would probably have been licked if Chilean President Gabriel González Videla had not jettisoned the Communists and become his friend. Last week's conference was the payoff. C.I.T.'s new president knows better than to tie up with the Communists again. Says he: "The Commies are going to use every dirty trick...