Word: chuquicamata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the barren, mud-colored hills surrounding Chile's Chuquicamata, stood last week a knot of enthusiastic newshawks. They had stopped off on their way home from a Pan-American Press Conference at Valparaiso for a gigantic entertainment specially staged for them by the world's largest copper mines. They were to see one of the world's largest explosions, the firing of 3,000,000 Ib. of dynamite...
...whether the President-Elect or Col. Grove or some other Chilean becomes the next President. One thing was certain however: Chile is facing famine conditions. During the week Chile Copper Co. (subsidiary of Anaconda) asked Government permission to import directly flour and other foods for its miners at Chuquicamata. Braden Copper Co. was feeding not only workers but the unemployed of Rancagua at the rate of 3,000 loaves of bread per day. Inability to import enough food results partly from the Chilean Government's long-standing policy of restricting foreign exchange movements to support the peso-a policy...