Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile's presidential campaign, made necessary by the death in June of President Rios, was under way in the sleet and snow of Andean winter. Torn by feuds and prides that cut as deep as cleavages among the leftists, conservatives could unite on no single man. Chileans had been about ready to swing to the right, but many now hoped for a middle way. With four candidates in the field, it was a wide-open race after...
...winner would face problems that could hardly be handled from an easy chair. Chile had become the international Thin Man. The cost of living had doubled since 1939. A dozen eggs cost 60?, an ordinary shirt $6 and the average worker earning about $1 a day was out of luck. Even Chile's famed social laws, which insured him against practically everything, were powerless to buy him shirt or eggs. From his predicament spiraled massive social problems: poor public health (devastating tuberculosis and infant mortality rates), declining industrial output, alcoholism...
...Claverly Hall room, the prospective Ph.D. has hung a plaque of the subject of his thesis, Jose Manuel Balmaceda, President of Chile from 1886-91, given to him by the son of that "great hero of the people of Chile...
...while lecturing at the University of Chile that he made the acquaintance of the present President of Ecuador, then a senior member of the same faculty...
Elsewhere, British engravings were not in vogue. Argentina refused to honor British mail carrying a new twopenny stamp featuring the disputed (but British-administered) Falkland Islands. Chile likewise objected because the stamp showed as British a portion of the Polar icecap she covets...