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Word: basconia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspension of payments," a legal state just this side of actual bankruptcy that defers debt payments and allows a company to lay off help (otherwise forbidden by law). In a land where newspapers print no unpleasant news, word spread that the big (3,000 employees) Euskalduna shipyard and the Basconia steel mill in Bilbao were also about to lay off their work forces, and so was Madrid's leading steel company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Hard Times | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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