Word: chiles
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...said the big, bald foreman, "now comes Chile." His crew of overalled workmen hefted Chile's red, blue and white banner and set it next to Canada's on the stage of San Francisco's gilded opera house. The workmen had 60 flags, from Afghanistan's to Yugoslavia's, to put in place. The occasion: the United Nations, born in San Francisco in June 1945, was back in its birthplace to celebrate its tenth anniversary...
...World Bank financed a small diesel power plant. U.N. experts are ubiquitous in the underdeveloped free lands-a Haitian coffee expert and an Australian lumberjack teaching their trades in Addis Ababa, a Rhodesian statistician in Libya, an Icelandic engineer in Ceylon, a Danish fishing expert multiplying the catch of Chile's fisherfolk by replacing their oars with outboard engines...
...self-taught sculptor, Milles left his home in Sweden at 22 to become a gym instructor in Chile, but he got no farther than Paris. There he de cided to make sculpture his career...
...shingle in Great Falls, Mont., representing among others Montana Power, Great Northern Railway, Anaconda. He joined Anaconda's legal department full time in 1943, and within eight years was general counsel and a vice president. Recently, Glover skillfully helped resolve thorny difficulties over taxes and exchange rates with Chile, where Anaconda mines Chuquicamata, the world's greatest single copper ore body, winning considerable financial relief for the company, and Chile's Order of Merit for himself. By company rule, Glover may serve four more years before reaching the compulsory retirement age of 68, can continue thereafter...
...Anaconda's boss, Kelley kept the company in step with the rapidly expanding demands for copper of the electronic age. He bought mines in Chile, made Anaconda the world's biggest producer; by buying American Brass and setting...