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...south last week Pan American was sending a different sort of expedition, with a less happy mission, into bitter, freezing weather. A Ford transport of Pan American-Grace Line had taken off from Santiago, Chile, with six passengers and a crew of three bound for Buenos Aires. Somewhere over the Andes in a winter blizzard the ship was lost. Hopelessly searchers tried to scour a storm-swept, chasm-striped area 220 mi. long, 150 mi. wide where the plane might have come down...
...virtually impossible. Hence foreign producers have little inclination to share their markets with U. S. producers through Copper Exporters, Inc. Last week the first tangible evidence of the split was seen when four big foreign producers resigned from the export body. They were: Union Minière du Haut Katanga, Chile Copper, subsidiary of Anaconda; International Nickel Co. of Canada; Cerro de Pasco with prolific mines in Peru. Coppermen thought Copper Exporters would eventually cease to function, that U. S. producers would concentrate on their domestic market. Last week copper sold at 5?¢ in the U. S., 5¢ at London...
...shore, refusing to dock though there was an acute gasoline shortage at Santiago. In a word the rich U. S. citizens who used to have every confidence in rich Ambassador Davila, had confidence last week that his "Sane" Socialism will not hurt the billion-dollar foreign interests in Chile...
...second time stern measures must be taken. When railway and other strikes broke out in sympathy with Col. Grove the new Davila Government sent soldiers to run some of the trains, suspended other service. Despatches smuggled past the censor purporting to tell of counterrevolutions in various parts of Chile were firmly, officially denied, and that was that...
...Grove and his principal aides, the Government announced, were carried by a destroyer to Chile's Mas-a-Tierra ("Robinson Crusoe") Island and there imprisoned. In 1930 Col. Grove, after making a hash of the revolution his friends attempted then, was exiled to this same island, escaped...