Word: valdivia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elect Alessandri and raised deafening cheers for the defeated candidate, part-Irish Col. Marmaduke Grove (pronounced Gro-vay). With all Chile tense, wondering whether Col. Grove would try a coup d'état (as he has several times before) the world's largest nitrate plant Pedro de Valdivia closed down last week. This plant, owned by the U. S. Guggenheims, has a capacity of 700,000 tons of nitrate yearly and is controlled by Cosach, the Chilean nitrate monopoly in which the Government and the Guggenheims are major stockholders. Tersely Cosach's President Medley Gordon Brittain Whelpley...