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...reference to the article on Chile in TIME, Nov. 2, there is an error in the comparison of infant-mortality rates in Chile and the U.S. TIME states "In 1939 Chile had the highest infant mortality rate in the world (250 per 1,000 live births), a death rate twice that of the U.S." The U.S. infant mortality rate for 1939 was 48 (48 infants died under one year of age for every 1,000 live births). The infant mortality rate reported for Chile in 1939 was 225-almost five times as high as the rate...
...TIME'S facts were carelessly phrased: and "and" instead of a comma would have made clear that the second half of the sentence referred to the separate fact of Chile's overall death rate...
...Curtiss-Wright borrowed Doolittle to demonstrate its planes in Chile, in competition with German pilots. At a party one night Jimmy Doolittle took on an average cargo of highballs, did a handstand on a window ledge two stories above the street. The ledge began to crumble. Ashamed to call for help, he fell to the sidewalk and broke both ankles. A German pilot insisted on running the plane trials on the scheduled day. Doolittle had his feet strapped to the rudder bar, chased the German from the sky. Later, with his crutches in the plane, he soloed across the deathtraps...
Exposure. When, after a year's patient work, the picture was clear and complete, Washington acted. On June 30, 1942 U.S. Ambassador to Chile Claude G. Bowers presented a 20-page memorandum to the Chilean Government which suggested politely that the existence of such a spy network was not only a violation of Chilean sovereign rights as a neutral but a menace to the entire Western Hemisphere...
...more than three months later when Sumner Welles, tired of waiting for the Chileans to take effective action, made his now famous Boston speech, which caused Chile's President Rios to postpone a visit to Washington, then to change his Cabinet...