Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier in the week Peru's Congress voted to resume payment on long-defaulted bonds held in the U.S., in hopes of getting a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan. But both Chile's and Peru's prospects for new U.S. loans are poor. Perhaps, in the long run, the Strong Man will be a bigger help than...
...Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, editor of the small bi-weekly Economista, noisily called attention to Easter Island, Chile's Polynesian possession. This year, when the Angamos made the annual voyage 1,900 miles west from Valparaiso bearing supplies and several officials, some Santiago newsmen went along. What they later told of the island's wonders, and its potentialities for growing sugar, pineapples and other tropical produce, roused Editor Ojeda to some of his hottest editorials...
...tattered Polynesian survivors (there were also nine Chilean officials, two Englishmen, one Frenchman) living in one coastal village. The British company's 60,000 sheep grazed in the shadow of the ancient monoliths. The annual wool-clip alone was worth around $150,000. Ojeda demanded that Chile develop the island itself. Other Santiago papers took...
...Already Chile's Foreign Office was discussing with the Australians a South Pacific airline that would be sure to end Easter's pastoral isolation. The island's grassy downs, ten hours from Chile, would make a perfect way station...
Nothing like it had ever happened to a Sigmund Romberg operetta before. In Detroit, the Civic Light Opera Association decided that Romberg's My Maryland needed a bright boy to jive it up a little-and they knew just the right boy to do it. Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson, a young Negro (who is eight according to his father, eleven according to school records), is a piano-playing natural...