Word: lota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Gonzalez faced what he called another Communist attempt to oust his government. At the undersea coal mines at Lota, south of Santiago, hundreds of strikers (according to official reports) tried to seize the mines. There were also walkouts in the nitrate and copper mines of northern Chile. Again moving quickly, Gonzalez sent armed forces into six strike-hit provinces with orders to take over mines and communications and isolate the strike areas...
Chile's mountain riches will supply the raw materials: ore from Bethlehem's El Tofo mines, 500 miles up the coast; coal from the undersea veins of nearby Lota; power from Fomento's hydroelectric plant at neighboring El Abánico. Only limestone has been a problem. To get it, a crew of 130 men, with rat-hungry cats, is now setting up installations on rainy, rat-infested Madre de Dios Island, 900 miles down the coast...
Four members of the Class of '49 were elected to lota chapter last fall. New members will be formally initiated later this month...
...million World Bank loan. Visiting U.S. industrialists, who have told González that they would be interested in investing in Chile if ever he got the best of his Commies, could watch the rapid climb of Chile's stockmarket last week and draw their own conclusions. Lota coal shares were up ten points in five days...
...lost in the political power play were some 18,000 undersea coal miners of Lota, whose strike for higher pay set off the explosion (TIME, Oct. 13). They went back to work last week at a 40% increase in pay: 20? an hour at the official rate...