Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Perón's advisers had hoped that the decrees would get quick dollar relief via ECA, they got a rude shock at week's end. In Washington ECA published its biggest shopping list so far for Latin America. Heading the list was Chile, due to get $12,619,000 for copper and nitrogen fertilizer for Italy, France, Britain and The Netherlands. Mexico would receive $4,000,000 for corned beef for Germany, Venezuela $12 million for petroleum products for Europe. All told, the list totted up to $32,355,398. Argentina was not even...
Success. The U.S. college graduate is 49 times as likely as the non-college man to rate Who's Who in America. And he is nearly 15 times as likely to make $10,000 a year (15.1% of the college graduates make that or more). The chances are two in three that he makes at least...
Married. Barbara Jo Walker, 22, Sunday-school-teaching Miss America (1947); and John Vernon Hummel, 24, medical intern; in Memphis. Some 2,000 guests were invited to the wedding; police held back the uninvited, while firemen's searchlights lit the Methodist Church like a Hollywood premi...
Married. John Lujack, 23, Notre Dame's All-America quarterback of '46 and '47, who joins the professional Chicago Bears this fall; and Patricia Ann Schierbrock, 21, pretty brunette; in Davenport, Iowa...
...rubber industry, which a year ago cut tire prices 10% but later raised them, was getting ready to raise them again. Up went roller bearings, cable products, plastics, furs. Two-for-15? cigars (Bayuk) were boosted to 9? apiece. The Aluminum Co. of America last week granted a 10% wage increase, promptly raised the basic price of aluminum 1? a Ib. (to 15?), the first price increase in eleven years...