Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delegates from all the Americas including the U.S. and Canada gathered in the honors salon of the flag-decked National Congress building in Santiago, Chile. Their goal: to codify and extend social-security legislation for the benefit of American industrial and agricultural workers...
Outstanding figures were Chile's President, Juan Antonio Ríos; Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa; Chilean Public Health Minister Dr. Miguel Etchebarne (Congress president); Osvald Stein of the International Labor Office in Montreal; and Guest Nelson Rockefeller of the U.S. They convened as the first Inter-American Conference on Social Security...
...least half a dozen liners," and "pen pal of some future desperado." Barbara has met nice people everywhere, "and left them nicely alone." Her heart belongs to Daddy and to a host of "socially maladjusted" bums and crooks she has picked up in Cuba, Paris, Gramercy Park, Chile, Peru, Ecuador...
...Guiana. All independent South American nations had accorded Brazil nonbelligerent status. Onetime Argentine President General Augustin Justo, who is pro-United Nations and who would like to be a candidate for the presidency in 1943, volunteered for the Brazilian army and was accepted as an honorary brigadier general. From Chile, whose President Juan Antonio Rios will soon visit the U.S., came hints of a break with the Axis before Rios leaves Santiago. If the Axis, as Aranha hinted, had forced Brazil into war to check growing hemisphere unity, it had once more shown its ignorance of other nations' psychology...
Next most promising oil prospects are the shores of the Pacific-including Alaska, Chile, Japan, the South Sea Islands. Most promising for the U.S. is the Williston Basin, spreading over parts of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta. But so abundant is oil nearly everywhere that its discovery is primarily a matter of the "social state of mind." Says Oilman Pratt: "Where oil really is, then, in the final analysis, is in our own heads...