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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The third brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, now 60, fat and moonfaced, was Minister of Works, Mines and Power until the Congress in 1946 gave his cabinet job to a Moslem Leaguer. In a huff, Sarat Bose quit the Congress, organized his own Socialist Republican Party. He was in Switzerland, recuperating...
With no outstanding differences between his own and the Liberals' platform, Tory Leader Drew never found any major issue. But he rapped the government's aircraft policy, charging that the Canadian-built Canadair planes were unsafe. He attacked the government-controlled Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and the Liberals'...
Anaconda, largest of the two U.S. companies that together own 96% of Chile's mines, announced a 30% cutback, laid off 2,615 workers. Higher-cost Chilean-owned mines had already shut down or soon would. That would add several thousand more to the unemployment rolls. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the price drop brought cries from copper-state Congressmen for revival of the prewar tariff on U.S. copper imports. If it were reimposed, Chile would be shut from any big share of the U.S. market...
Life's Blood. Every 1? drop in the copper market cost the Chilean government $5,000,000 in royalties. By last week the price decline had already brought a $32.5 million-loss in this year's foreign exchange budget. The production cut also meant a fall of 1.8...
If these steps did not go far enough, Chile planned to create a state-controlled Corporation del Cobre which would control the production, price and distribution of all Chilean copper. In effect, U.S. companies would lose their firm hold over the world's biggest source of the metal outside...