Word: lautaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, editor of the small bi-weekly Economista, noisily called attention to Easter Island, Chile's Polynesian possession. This year, when the Angamos made the annual voyage 1,900 miles west from Valparaiso bearing supplies and several officials, some Santiago newsmen went along. What they later told of the island's wonders, and its potentialities for growing sugar, pineapples and other tropical produce, roused Editor Ojeda to some of his hottest editorials...
...anew the old superstition that disasters run in cycles of three. Two other Chilean ships had been plagued by mysterious fires in recent weeks. In Valparaiso, stevedores loading the merchantman Naguilan had discovered a suspicious blaze in the ship's hold. Off the Peruvian coast, the square-rigged Lautaro, one of the world's largest sailing vessels and pride of the Chilean navy, exploded and sank with another cargo of war-scarce nitrate; 19 midshipmen burned to death or drowned...
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