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...promiscuous?" Some reasons, based on interviews with 365 girls over a period of 17 months: loneliness, boredom, curiosity, spite, emotional dependence, a desire to conquer, maladaptation, poor environment, broken homes, the desire to hold a man's affections. Only 5% were interested in money, and then as an afterthought...
...afterthought she added: "Today I just about rushed into a buried mine. An American saved my life...
...Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla dreamed up an entirely different conference of "the American Republics collaborating in the war effort." It would meet in Mexico City on Feb. 15. As a noncollaborator, Argentina would be excluded. The Mexico conference was primarily to discuss war and postwar problems. As an afterthought it might consider the matter of Argentina's isolation...
...afterthought we have decided to let our generosity overflow to the extent of making your career here absolutely a snap. In Foreign Resources, there are two cardinal rules to success...
Fund and Bank. The proposed World Reconstruction Bank was a relative afterthought of the British and Americans who drafted its plan during the conference. Notable feature: the Bank would primarily guarantee loans, expected to come principally from the U.S., so as to reduce the American risk. To most of the delegates from European countries, the Bank is of prime importance. They do not see how the stabilization scheme can work without it. Unless they get loans to rebuild their industries, they cannot export goods to pay for what they need from abroad, and without internal economic stability, the Fund...