Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week from Cuba to Chile half a hemisphere is practicing new songs, trying on costumes and catching up on sleep...
...blockade and counter-blockade. Their total foreign trade, instead of breaking upward, sheered off. Surpluses piled up. Fortnight ago, in Montevideo, their delegates sat down at a round table to figure a way out. Present were representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia; as observers, the U. S., Chile and Peru. The meeting called itself the first Regional Conference of the Plata River...
...Magg, Pianist-Arranger Nicolas Slonimsky; Columbia: 8 sides-$4.50). Proving that Brazil's Villa-Lobos is not the sole South American composer of well-made songs, dances, Parisian-sounding salon pieces. Others: Brazil's Fernandez and Mignone, Uruguay's Pedrell and Broqua, Argentina's Ficher, Chile's Santa Cruz, Peru's Sas, Colombia's Uribe-Holguin...
...first organized visit of its kind to a U. S. university, 109 men & women of seven South American countries (Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay) had arrived to spend their summer in a special six-week "summer school" at North Carolina. Their trip was arranged by the Institute of International Education and Grace Line (which cut rates in half) and was aided by the U. S. State Department and South American governments (which paid some of the students' expenses). The students-undergraduates, teachers, doctors, lawyers, social workers, newspapermen, an army officer-had come to study chiefly the English...
...Chile's Fomento Corporation (Chilean RFC), $12,000,000 to purchase six Lockheed twin-engine 14-passenger transport planes, and to the Central Bank $5,000,000 for mining equipment, pumps, compressors...