Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Main objection to this transaction, of course, comes from the high-cost domestic producers, who do not like to see their Government buying foreign copper (and selling it at a 2? profit) rather than theirs. The only philosophy for their wounds is New Deal Pan-Americanism: countries like Chile, in this emergency, in some respects deserve the status of a 49th State. Chile's copper economy depended on lost European markets; France took 121,000 tons in the first four months of 1940, had 100,000 tons more on order when Hitler put her out of business. Chile...
Homely, pock-marked little Pedro Aguirre Cerda won his nickname Don Tinto from the tinto (red wine) squeezed from his prosperous vineyards. Friends of the rotos (ragged ones), his Popular Front took control of Chile away from the other haciendados and big businessmen two years ago, made rich Don Tinto President. Last week Chile's rotos showed their approval, voted his man, Aurelio Cruzat, to victory in a Senatorial by-election...
Some small success has already come Spain's way. After repairing its diplomatic break with Chile, whose Valparaiso Consul is also a Hispanidad Councilman, Spain began taking first shipments on a 150,000-ton nitrate order last week. But Riestra's reception in Havana was evidence that Latin America was not yet ready for a full dose of Axis-made love and intelligence...
...Chile is the nearest country to the Antarctic. According to Government reasoning, the area claimed was a logical extension of Chile proper and of its Andes Mountains, which disappear in Drake Strait, reappear in the Antarctic. What Chile hoped to gain from the new colony was less explainable. Though deposits of minerals, principally coal, have been reported in the frozen Antarctic mountains, none of commercially profitable quality has ever been found. As a control point on the southern seaway between the Atlantic and Pacific, as a possible refueling base for a South America-Australia air route, the Antarctic presented only...
...What Chile did accomplish was to complicate further the overlapping claims already crowding each other around the frosty pie. Chile's segment includes part of the U. S.-explored lands on the west, overflows the Argentine-British claims on the east. Since 1908 this has been the most contested portion of the Antarctic...