Word: chuquicamata
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...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 at the board...
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...
...Harvard Observatory has been located at Chuquicamata, Chile, about twenty miles from the Smithsonian station, and at an altitude of between seven and eight thousand feet. The region is practically rainless, and the available records indicate long seasons of cloudless skies...