Word: santiagos
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...peace, at Annapolis, Tripoli, Mobile Bay, Santiago, the Philippine Sea, Norfolk and San Diego, the pride of the Navy grew. In intense patriotism, dedicated Navy officers held two words to be all but synonymous-the Navy and the Nation. They upheld one to defend the other-and, after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, fought the biggest, most imaginative and magnificent sea war in history. When peace was won, and they were asked to mothball most of the great and glorious fleet and surrender power and prerogatives, minds shaped by the Navy's great years found it hard to obey...
...further sign of high U.S. regard for Chile, Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller Jr. was under orders to go to Santiago soon and extend President Truman's invitation to Gabriel González to visit Washington next year...
...government's fast work brought order to Santiago. Students started back to school, buses ran again. The rioting's toll: 10 dead, 130 injured, 300 arrested...
...Santiago last week, a student protest against a 14% hike in bus fares turned into ugly rioting over the cost of living. The rioters even tried to rush La Moneda, the presidential palace, but tear gas held them off until palace guards could slam shut the great wooden doors...
...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...