Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girdled the globe, run off a great flight in the Army's biggest plane (Boeing B15) with a gargantuan load of medical supplies for quake-stricken Chile. Yet Caleb Haynes is no chair polisher. He, too, rode out in front in every show he could make...
...finest and most furious sets of murals ever painted in the Western Hemisphere was on view last week in the little city of Chilian (pop. 34,000) in Chile. An earthquake, an assassination, a jailbreak and a flight into exile had all conspired to produce them...
...south panel (see cut) gave a Marxist-eye-view of the history of Chile. It was dominated by a gigantic figure of the Araucanian Indian chief Galvarino, roaring and waving the stumps of his handless arms (mutilated by the Spaniards) over a group of prone Spanish soldiers, like a mad maestro leading an infernal symphony. Over his shoulders glared the faces of Revolutionists Francisco Bilbao (with beard) and Araucanian Chief Caupolican (with one blind eye). Behind them, clutching a Chilean flag, swayed the small figure of Chile's liberator, Bernardo O'Higgins. The two panels were connected...
Editor Lanus confirmed the rumor that before last year's Rio conference Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú tried to seduce Chile, Paraguay and Peru into a bloc to refuse cooperation with the U.S. Argentina waited this week to see whether Campo Minado would be suppressed when it was put on public sale...
...Most Cheerful . . ." The 42 lucky, shipwrecked seamen left in the hotel got almost too much attention. An average of two first-aiders hovered over each; extra workers entertained them with cards and checkers, plied them with magazines, cigarets, candy. Miss Loretta Besa, formerly of Santiago, Chile, now a New Englander, was called in to interpret the sailors' Spanish. She took down a letter from a Puerto Rican to his wife: "Dear Wife, I am O.K. Everything is about the same." One sailor refused to eat until he found out the food was free. All his money went down with...