Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last month a converted British Lancaster bomber made a survey flight from London to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. The British plan a regular commercial service on that route...
...seven-a former supreme court justice, two newspapermen, two former university professors and two student leaders-came a story of trouble in Tacho's domain. It had all started when Somoza's National Guardsmen charged and clubbed thousands of Nicaraguans who had turned out to welcome Chile's visiting libertarian President Juan Antonio Rios...
Passengers in the new ships will be coddled with air-conditioned cabins with private baths, plenty of deck space, swimming pools, and a weekly service (v. the prewar fortnightly schedule) to the Panama Canal and down the west coast to Chile. By doubling the number of sailings, Grace will carry nearly as many passengers as it did before the war. Deliveries of the new ships will begin some time in February...
...Mountains. The most colorful diplomat on the current U.S. scene was born 51 years ago, in the Montana mountain country. His future was shaped at birth: Spruille's father was William Braden, an engineer and promoter who followed the mining business from Montana to Chile, got rich in the process, and in his day was famous throughout the southern continent...
President Juan Antonio Rios of Chile dropped into Manhattan to dedicate raffish Sixth Avenue as the Avenue of the Americas. He also decorated old friend Nelson Rockefeller, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, with Chile's Order of Merit, threw himself into an all-out Latin embrace that tickled Father John D. pink (see cut). Then he headed for Hollywood...