Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile rates ace-high with the U.S. President Gabriel González Videla's democratic regime appeals to the State Department because it seeks political stability. Its well-conceived, well-prepared blueprints for national resources development make sense to U.S. lending agencies and Point Four planners. Result: since the war the U.S. has lent Chile a total of $86.7 million...
Last week Chile got fresh help from the U.S.: a $25 million Export-Import Bank credit. It would tide the Chileans over the slump in copper prices that knocked a hole in the government's expected revenues for 1949. Moreover, by making money available to pay for U.S. heavy equipment and materials, it would enable González to go forward with his program of economic development...
...further sign of high U.S. regard for Chile, Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller Jr. was under orders to go to Santiago soon and extend President Truman's invitation to Gabriel González to visit Washington next year...
...instance, the natives used two kinds of fishhook: a barbed, composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...
After 39 years with Kennecott Copper Corp., E. Tappan Stannard, 66, decided to retire. He had joined Kennecott in 1911 as a mining engineer in Chile, risen to general manager of Kennecott's Alaska mines five years later, and moved into the presidency in 1933. Under him, Kennecott, biggest copper producer in the U.S., boosted sales from $50 million to $350 million a year...