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...telegrams he had received on farm labor shortages (see p. 22), suggesting that it might be wise for the Army to furlough some of its 35 -to -45 year-olds for work in factory and field. Forthwith, the Army began to furlough 4,000 miners to go back to copper, lead and zinc fields...
...break with the Axis was not something that President Rios could lightly undertake. Chilean isolationists feel that Chile has enough trouble at home without risking invasion along 2,800 miles of coast. Chile's great riches, nitrates and copper, (mostly owned by U.S. companies) return to Chile only wages and taxes. Chile's agricultural land is sparse and dominated by the landed gentry on their great fundos. The nation's industrial workers average less than $200 yearly, her agricultural workers less than $100. Santiago's dank slums and pasty-faced poor are as prominent a feature...
...hemisphere: Chile has lost most of its foreign trade, except that with the U.S. (before the war some 84% of Chile's exports went elsewhere). Chileans have always been tempted to think of the U.S. chiefly as the destination of the major profits from Chilean nitrate and copper. But Good Neighborliness in Washington now seems to be carrying conviction in Santiago. Countless Chilean voices were urging union with the hemispheric front...
...open water turned suddenly to eight feet of ice. "We struck a very bad season," said Sergeant Larsen, whose idea of a good season would frighten most men to death. The men blasted huge ice floes and icebergs threatening the uniquely tough hull of the St. Roch, which was copper sheathed and overlaid with ice-resisting Australian ironbark. The St. Roch stayed upright and whole when ice crashing by lifted her straight up out of the water...
Glass is now going to war in a big way as a replacement for copper, aluminum, bronze, other scarce metals. Already centrifugal pumps with impellers, plates and other parts of glass are whirring. U.S. laundresses will shortly wield electric irons having glass sole plates. Glass plumbing for private homes may be around the corner. Industrial glass plumbing is already here to stay. Recent developments include easy-to-use glass-welding gadgets so simple that ordinary maintenance employes in the U.S. food industry can be trained to repair and even to install glass plumbing. The U.S. fisherman who uses cork...