Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emphasizing Chile's cooperation with other countries in national and inter national affairs. His Excellency, Don Rudolfo Michels, Chilean Ambassador, traced the political, economic, social, and cultural advances of his country since 1890 in a lecture in Lowell House Junior Common Room last evening...
...social legislation Chile has made itself one of the most advanced countries in South America, Michele continued. Old age pensions, compulsory workers' insurance, and low-coat housing programs have been established...
...Only Argentina and Chile delayed action, but in Argentina, where there are 16 Axis ships, a bill ordering their confiscation was before the Chamber of Deputies. The Chilean Navy started hunting for a launch that was reported refueling a German raider somewhere near the Strait of Magellan...
...forced abandonment of the Nazi transatlantic service to South America. Last summer Colombia (with U.S. urging) nationalized the 5,175-mile, German-affiliated Scadta line. Chief lines still operating in South America with direct or indirect German connections: Brazil's Condor (10,000 miles extending into Argentina and Chile), Vasp (1,200 miles) and Varig (940 miles); Bolivia's Lloyd Aero Boliviano (3,000 miles); Ecuador's Sedta (900 miles...
...glossy coat and a little sporting blood." No one knows exactly why he went to South America. Some thought he might have been on an unofficial mission to Chile, sent by his good friend Henry Wallace, of whom Anderson wrote a strange, ambiguous sketch in No Swank. More probably, like many another American, he had just gone wandering about, looking for other people to talk to, another place to be alone...