Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olympic Games, a Boy Scout bearing the national standard of Chile fainted dead away from the heat. And at the practice field where the Olympic athletes themselves were warming up, India's six foot three-inch Gurnam Singh panted and pined openly for his native Patiala (where the temperature hits 120°). Said Singh: "In England 90° is equal to 112° in India. It's the terrible humidity...
...President Perón's advisers had hoped that the decrees would get quick dollar relief via ECA, they got a rude shock at week's end. In Washington ECA published its biggest shopping list so far for Latin America. Heading the list was Chile, due to get $12,619,000 for copper and nitrogen fertilizer for Italy, France, Britain and The Netherlands. Mexico would receive $4,000,000 for corned beef for Germany, Venezuela $12 million for petroleum products for Europe. All told, the list totted up to $32,355,398. Argentina was not even...
Earlier in the conference, Chile's Benjamin Cohen, Assistant Secretary General in Charge of Public Information, had said the same, with fewer dots and more dash. He lashed out at newspapermen for "distorting" U.N. news and giving a "fragmentary picture," put the blame on a "crisis-conflict" type of journalism. Secretary General Trygve Lie was gentler. "I wouldn't go as far as that," said Lie, diplomatically. "It depends a good deal on the individual paper and country...
What Haya and a lot of his followers feared was assassination. Remembering what happened to Gaitan in Bogota, Haya had ordered the No. 2 Aprista, handsome Manuel Seoane, to stay in Chile for a while, to be ready to take over if something should happen to the Jefe Maximo (supreme chieftain). Most people in Peru agreed that, should Haya be assassinated, APRA's answer would probably be revolution...
...Chile, President Gabriel González Videla, who came to power a year ago with Commie votes, last week asked his Congress to outlaw the party. He had already sent 600 leading Communists to the Chilean backlands, now had police out rounding up small...