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Four Men to a Job. The problem spreads across the whole range of industry. At least 5,000 of Bolivia's 25,000 mineworkers and 30,000 of Argentina's 180,000 railway workers are superfluous. Chile's creaking national railroad employs 87 men per mile of track v. 27 in Britain, where that number is considered heavy featherbedding. Brazilian 10,000-ton freighters have an average 49 crewmen each, while similar ships under other flags use only 37.* Argentina's depressed auto manufacturers, producing at scarcely 30% of capacity, are desperately trying to thin their...
ACCION is a private organization that has sponsored community development work in Venezuela for the last three years. This fall it will initiate pilot projects in Mexico and possibly Chile...
Both in and out, it was a tough commute. A Jeep steering wheel came off. The Jeep dove into a gorge and had to be repaired with Scotch tape and fishing pliers. The governments of both Argentina and Chile, deciding that this was really a smuggling expedition, sent police along to make sure that dry flies were the only things being cast across the border...
...Alliance for Progress got off to a disappointing start, and has never lacked critics to advertise the fact. Last week from all sides came a fresh flurry of criticism and thoughts on how to set it right. At a press conference in Santiago, Chile, where he was on a state visit, Brazil's President Joao Goulart said that the Alliance "fulfills neither the objectives nor the high hopes raised when it was formulated two years ago." Goulart, whose country is the program's biggest beneficiary, called for a "cool and calm" reappraisal aimed at "remodeling" the Alliance...
...past four years, but only twelve of them survive; of those, several are in deperate shape and the four biggest-Kaiser, General Motors, Ford, Fiat-together have an annual capacity of 180,000 cars in a nation where only 100,000 were sold last year. In Uruguay and Chile, Ford's assembly plants are almost at a standstill because of an embargo on imported parts caused by a dollar drought...