Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banquet the night before he left, Holland offered a rich, buttery toast to Peron: "A great American, a great Argentine-" Peron ordered out his personal DC-4 to take Holland to Chile, and the Peronista press wrote: "We received Mr. Holland with a question. His attitude these past three days has been a full and satisfactory reply...
...contrast, the tone of Holland's visit to Chile was somber and serious. President Carlos Ibáñez, bucking an anti-Administration majority in Congress, has been helpless to curb Chile's feverish inflation. Of a comprehensive economic program he offered. Congress passed only a sales tax. Unionists, 520,000 strong (in a country of 6,100,000), reacted to that with strikes. Starting in August, copper miners closed down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into...
...four hours with Ibáñez and his chief ministers, Holland got a restrained rundown on Chile's plight. They asked for no U.S. aid, but Chilean economists later told him that at November's hemisphere conference in Rio they will seek creation of a new development-loan bank and price supports for Latin American raw materials. Holland spoke up for broadened trade and private investments, and departed, soberly, for Bolivia...
...riding into an Australian town with his father on a wagon loaded with freshly mined gold. He graduated from his father's university, Stanford, in 1925, and from Harvard's School of Business Administration, became an oil-exploration engineer, worked for the governments of Iran, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil. He founded the United Geophysical Co. in Pasadena and stayed on as president after it was bought out by Union Oil of California. He was also an airline engineer (with Western Air Express, a forerunner of the present T.W.A.). He is now a director of four or five companies...
Entree. In Quintero, Chile, a cow slipped on a mountainside, plunged through the roof of a hotel below, landed ungarnished in the dining room...