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Their coal tar red wrecked the business of Levant farmers who had been raising madder plants for madder red. A similar misfortune befell the indigo plant cultivators of India. In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished. Chile, once boastful of its natural nitrate monopoly is humble. Synthetic rubber is a fact, although heretofore more expensive than Malaya and Sumatra natural rubber...
...obscure also-ran, jugging along in tenth place, eighth place. Suddenly word reached the stadium that a dark little man was passing the leaders as if they were standing still. He crossed the finish line smiling and almost fresh, 150 metres ahead of Miguel Plaza, news vendor from Chile. Joie Ray of the U. S. finished fifth...
...twenty-eighth and last nation finally to sign the new agreement. The agreement was a list of exceptions. It specified a few remaining articles of commerce which it was agreed might still be subjected to prohibitions and restrictions by the various nations. It was agreed that Chile, for example, might continue temporarily to exercise governmental control over her imports of scrap iron and scrap zinc, and over the importation of hares. Portugal retained temporary control of her fine wool and raw cork exports. Bulgaria chose to guard her exports of rose trees, roots, shoots; Sweden, her scrap iron; Czechoslovakia...
...Chile & Peru. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg induced the republics of Chile and Peru to promise that they will resume, at some proximate but unspecified future time, the mutual diplomatic relations which they broke...
Previously, for 23 years, Chile and Peru had been negotiating acrimoniously over the disputed provinces of Tacna and Arica (TIME, March 7). They may now resume these negotiations, thus relieving the U. S. of much Latin American blame, which was incurred when the President of the U. S. did not succeed in settling the Tacna-Arica question, after accepting the joint invitations of Chile and Peru to act as arbiter (TIME, March...