Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seattle, a maritime convention of the International Labor Office was meeting in an effort to set a minimum worldwide seamen's wage. But the minimum would not be anything like U.S. wages.* Chile shipowners pay their crews only $18 a month. Canadians pay $90. The rest of the world ranges in between. Scandinavian countries pay $80. Britain, which would give the U.S. the hottest competition, pays...
...Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come out for a Chile-Argentine customs union, and appointed its Foreign Minister to attend the Strong Man's inauguration...
With Perón moving swiftly, confidently to create Argentine leadership in South America for the old scheme of a bloque austral (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru), last week's U.S. proposal for hemisphere military cooperation came none too soon. But it pointed to fresh U.S. initiative in Latin American affairs (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...custom began in Chile: there, at Army musters, a chosen soldier answers "here!" to the name of O'Higgins.* a brave & bygone hero of the republic. That seemed like a good idea to Texas A & M- which furnished more Army officers in World Wars I and II than did West Point...
...Bernardo O'Higgins, son of an Irish father and a Chilean mother, and first president of Chile, who died...