Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile, trying to save gasoline (and dollar exchange), put police patrols on the roads to hold motorists down to 40 m.p.h. The government also asked motorists to cut out-of-town jaunts to one a fortnight. Chile's fuel future looked bright. With great fanfare, scientists at the University of Concepcion cracked 150 liters of petroleum from the new Tierra del Fuego fields, pronounced the product excellent...
Rumpled, dark-eyed Bernardo Ibáñez has 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...
...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...
...investment in Latin America totals about $3 billion,* the annual return $400 million. Favorite U.S. investment area: Cuba with $590 million (sugar); Argentina, $497 million (meat packing); Mexico, $422 million (mining); Venezuela, $399 million (oil); Chile, $388 million (copper, nitrates), and Brazil with $334 million (public utilities). Nicaragua, with only $4 million, comes last...
Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...