Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Pedro Aguirre Cerda of Chile was a very sick man last week. His ruddy face now had the flush of fever. As he lay in his bed in the Moneda Palace, the daily bulletins about his health spoke always of his condition, never mentioned the disease from which Don Tinto was suffering. But three of the four doctors attending him were specialists in tuberculosis...
...same building, Chile's Vice President and Acting President of a fortnight. Gerónimo Méndez, was fighting, as hard a battle as the President. He was doing his best to keep the Popular Front Government together...
...special sideshow to these "Little Olympics," the Argentina Auto Club has challenged U.S. auto racers to a 14,000-mile dash from Washington to Buenos Aires-via the Pan American Highway to Mexico City and Panama, by boat to Venezuela, thence through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and across the Andes to Buenos Aires...
Alaska 2, Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 11, Belgium 1, Bermuda 2, Brazil 4, Bulgaria 1, Canada 51, Canal Zone 2, Chile 1, China 47, Colombia 6, Costa Rica 2, Cuba 4, Czechoslovakia 13, Denmark 2, Dominican Republic 1, Egypt 1, England 22, Finland 2, France 12, Germany 41, Greece 5, Guatemala 2, Haiti 1, Hawaii 21, Hungary 3, India 1, Italy 6, Jamaica 1, Japan 8, Lithuania 1, Luxembourg 1, Mexico 6, New Zealand 1, Norway 4, Panama 3, Paraguay 1, Peru 10, Philippine Islands 8, Poland 2, Puerio Rico 10, Romania 3, Russia 4, Scotland 1, South Africa...
...pacifier. Don Tinto's Popular Front Government, of which he is now the head, has been the victim of a tug of war between the Radicals and Socialists. Radical leaders are jockeying for the pole position in the next (1944) Presidential campaign. The Communists are lying ominously low. Chile's Rightists, Nazi sympathizers and the Army are waiting sharp-eyed for any crack in the Front...