Word: videla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chile's González Videla...
...presence of President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla and U.S. Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, Chile last week formally inaugurated its $88 million Huachipato steel plant, second largest in Latin America. Built with the help of a $48 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, the mill is the key unit in Chile's industrialization drive. Since its ultimate annual output of 350,000 tons is three times Chile's present needs, the plant will be able to help supply the needs of Chile's neighbors, will be of great strategic value in time...
Chile's President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla seemed in an unusually expansive mood. Wrapped in a borrowed admiral's cape, he watched his small but well-trained fleet in combat maneuvers at Quintero naval air base. Later he announced: "We just bought two cruisers . . . Thanks to the good will and the facilities granted by the U.S. Government, we will soon add . . . the U.S.S. Brooklyn and Savannah* to our fleet...
...Chilean Senate, twice (1920-25; 1932-38) President of Chile; in Santiago. A leader of Chile's Liberal Party, a skilled old hand at political give & take, Alessandri (called El Leon-the lion) pulled the strings in many a political deal, helped put President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla in office...
...President Gabriel González Videla's return from his U.S. good-will tour, two different groups of Chileans planned welcomes. Santiago officials ordered an arch of triumph, flowers, banners, and a day off for everybody. Communists, proclaiming that "González is handing over Chile to the Yankees," plotted strikes and street demonstrations...