The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.

At the back of the book you can find the glossary.

This became necessary because the 1982 exchange rate devaluation virtually bankrupted the Chilean financial sector (Loser 1987). The banks had borrowed large sums denominated in dollars and on-loaned them to domestic borrowers […]

A magnetic flux is said to have a density of one line per square centimeter when it exerts on a unit north pole a force of one dyne.