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...twilight world of lawyers, politicians and congressional committees. Last week, curiously emended, they reappeared on the desk of President Ibañez. Instead of being limited to city lights and trolleys, the contract is now designed to embrace practically all the light and power in the Republic of Chile...
...Compañía Chileña de Electricidad, Limitada, local subsidiary of Ebasco, returned a soft answer. In an open letter to Santiago's three most important papers they wrote that they were surprised and shocked at President Ibañez's protest, the more so since the power contract in every stage of its development had been inspected and approved by congressional and technical commissions "composed of Chileans of high repute," finally that it had been enthusiastically approved by none other than Señor Francisco Lobos, Director of the Electrical Services of the Republic. However...
Ebasco could afford to be polite. It knew, and President Ibañez knew that there was not another corporation in Chile capable of providing the electrical service which growing Chile had to have, that if the President would not sign this contract he would have to sign another very much like it. President Ibañez in revenge demanded and obtained the dismissal of Electrical Director Lobos, and the matter passed...
Last week were added to American & Foreign Power's roster seven more names, the most important being Mendoza, fourth largest city in Argentine. Mendoza, "Gateway to Chile," is the centre.of the famed Western Argentine wine district. Other new American & Foreign Power Co. customers: Mar del Plata, San Pedro. San Nicolas, Junin, Azul, San Luis, all in the Province of Buenos Aires, rich in cattle and crops...
Fascinatingly hidden beneath the ocean's surfaces are hills and dales, mountains, canyons, plateaus, plains. Many are known-Telegraph Plateau between Newfoundland and Ireland whereupon 14 of 21 North Atlantic cables lie, Fleming Deep (5½ mi. down) off Japan and the Philippines, Merriam Ridge off Chile and Hayes Peak off California (both nearly 2 mi. high). Last week came news of another peak, 1½ mi. high, discovered 300 miles northwest of Hawaii by the nonmagnetic brigantine Carnegie shortly before she exploded in the Samoan Islands (TIME, Dec. 9). Name of the new peak is to be, unless...