Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will meet in Washington late next month to plan joint action against "the aggressive policy of international Communism." The decision to call the meeting was taken unanimously last week by the Organization of American States' Council in Washington. A seven-man committee, composed of delegates representing Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico and the U.S., was appointed to work out the agenda for the meeting...
...presence of President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla and U.S. Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, Chile last week formally inaugurated its $88 million Huachipato steel plant, second largest in Latin America. Built with the help of a $48 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, the mill is the key unit in Chile's industrialization drive. Since its ultimate annual output of 350,000 tons is three times Chile's present needs, the plant will be able to help supply the needs of Chile's neighbors, will be of great strategic value in time...
...Chile's President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla seemed in an unusually expansive mood. Wrapped in a borrowed admiral's cape, he watched his small but well-trained fleet in combat maneuvers at Quintero naval air base. Later he announced: "We just bought two cruisers . . . Thanks to the good will and the facilities granted by the U.S. Government, we will soon add . . . the U.S.S. Brooklyn and Savannah* to our fleet...
Washington confirmed that a deal to sell Chile two light cruisers was just about closed. The U.S. has offered surplus warships to several Latin American countries at about 10% of their original price, plus the cost of reconditioning. Others in the line for warships bargains: Brazil (two heavy cruisers and some destroyer escorts), Argentine (two heavy cruisers), Peru (three destroyer escorts), Venezuela and Colombia (lighter craft...
...course applied the inexorable logic of its decision to its military riding teams: after the 1948 Olympics they were disbanded. That left the U.S. without any trained riding teams to enter in international jumping competitions, so for two seasons, U.S. riders watched cavalry teams from Mexico, Britain, France, Ireland, Chile and Canada jump off with all the prizes at the U.S.'s own National Horse Show. This year the International Equestrian Federation came to the rescue by ruling that civilians are just as eligible for international competitions as cavalrymen. Accordingly, as the 1950 horse show opened in Madison Square...