Word: chiles
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...find herself unable to do so-to carry it through under some circumstances that may arise, would be economic suicide. Meanwhile where Nazi business goes, there goes Nazi politics. In South America, Nazi thought and Nazi organization already bubble above the political surface, in Uruguay, in Brazil, in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia. Prodded by its own businessmen, pressed by German traders and diplomatic experts, South America might well become an armed threat to the U. S., a base for launching an invasion of North America up the stepladder of the Caribbean islands with a drive to the flank to close...
...schedule. In Washington, the plan was put at the top of the agenda for a Pan-American Conference at Havana, scheduled for June 26. The State Department, acting at "total speed," thither invited the representatives of the 20 Latin American nations. All 20 with total speed promptly accepted (though Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru and Argentina demurred at U. S. haste, asked a postponement until after mid-July...
...They retagged other classics Bach Bay Blues, Shoot the Schubert to Me, Hubert (ballet music from Rosamunde), Riffin' Raff (Cavatina by Raff). The Overture to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (he was a barber) became Barber's Hitch; Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe, Foster Chile'. Since last August, New Friends six recordings have tidily sold 20,000 copies...
...Worldly-wise German officials in Argentina cabled to Berlin to suggest that troops in Nazi-occupied Boulogne lay a wreath on the house at 105 Grand Rue, where South American Liberator General Jose de San Martin (who led 4,000 men across the Andes in 1817, freed Chile, Peru and Argentina from Spanish rule) died penniless...
...Pont crown prince. He was elected president-the first non-Du Pont to head the company in nearly a century. Unlike his elder brother,* Walter Carpenter is not even a Du Pont-in-law. Quitting Cornell in his senior year to take a Du Pont job in Chile, he loped to the head of the development department which completed the conversion of Du Pont, after World War I, from a great powder company to a greater chemical-technical empire. Since 1921 he has been the company's treasurer. Spare, hardworking, determined, he lives quietly in a rambling old stone...