The 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.
When New York's potent Ulen & Co. got the dam contract in 1929, swaggering, dynamic President Carlos Ibafiez had been "the Chilean Mussolini" for two years and both his regime and...
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