Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Gabriel González Videla's return from his U.S. good-will tour, two different groups of Chileans planned welcomes. Santiago officials ordered an arch of triumph, flowers, banners, and a day off for everybody. Communists, proclaiming that "González is handing over Chile to the Yankees," plotted strikes and street demonstrations...
...thought, was a great place, and he told in detail of what he had seen of TVA, Louisiana oilfields and Texas ranches. Of his Washington visit, he said: "I didn't ask for anything. But President Truman on his own initiative ordered a White House official to push Chile's irrigation loan through in the International Bank...
...first week of his U.S. good-will visit, Chile's energetic President Gabriel González Videla lived up to all his advance notices. Flashing a smile reminiscent of F.D.R.'s, he raced from ceremony to celebration with a headlong pace that recalled the late Fiorello La Guardia...
...tactful González never asked for a loan. But he asked the President's moral support for the bill now in Congress to postpone for two more years the imposition of a 2?-a-lb. import tax on foreign copper. He also invited President Truman to visit Chile next November when the country opens its $88 million Concepción steel plant, built with...
...Street. In New York, Chile's González rode behind a screaming motorcycle escort to his hotel, quickly changed clothes, then headed down Fifth Avenue for a sightseer's Saturday-night saunter. "Marvelous, marvelous," he cried, when he made his way through the after-theater crowd in Times Square...