Word: chiles
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...nine harassed politicos who have been President of hectic Chile since 1929 have had no time for dams?not even for South America's biggest. Last week it was inaugurated not by that suave old diplomat and champion Chilean wangler. President Arturo Alessandri but by his hard-driving Minister of Agriculture, Don Matias Silva...
Remains Argentina, whose acreage was reduced by droughts in the Southwest. Her surplus from this year's crop will not be more than 140,000,000 bu., some of which will have to go to Chile whose crop was damaged by too much rain...
...extremely smart is Cousin Jorge that he persuaded the State Mining Bank to pay $32,000 toward backing his development of Chile's first talkie. As a result Heroine Hilda Sour stars in a plot concerned largely with copper and gold mining in Northern Chile. As many shots as possible were taken in the garage near the Alameda de las Delicias which proved so noisy by day that most of Chile's first talkie had to be made at night...
Distantly related to Producer Delano is Chile's present Minister to Washington, Don Emilio Edwards. Not long ago the President gave him a book about the Chilean adventures of a Delano to be presented to Santiago's University. At Seville in 1929 Fourth Cousin Jorge, who is closer kin to the 32nd President of the U. S. than the 32nd President was to the 26th President, won the Ibero-American Cinema Grand Prix with his silent Chilean film, The Street of Dreams...
...Charles Bond (Two-Pants Suits) at a cost of $300,000. Last week the Procter chain fell into second place as the three Woodyard brothers of West Virginia marched into New York State. With the help of their good friend Spruille Braden, whose father made his money in Chile copper they raised some $60,000 new capital, acquired control of eight weeklies on Long Island's plump, profitable North Shore, linked them with their 15 county-seat weeklies in West Virginia. The Long Island and West Virginia groups are embodied in separate corporations, but both are managed...