Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precise and punctual members of La Paz's British colony, this state of affairs has been hard to bear. Last week the Britons were busy doing something about it. To mark the city's 400th anniversary next month, they had hit upon a handsome gift: a clock, not nearly so big as Big Ben, but big enough to bang out the hours in deep and dependable tones. Topping a 33-ft. granite tower, the $10,000 clock will stand smack in the middle of 2-mi.-high La Paz.* Cracked Buenavista: "What is the use of having...
...marry a ghost and bear him a kitten...
Operation Giant Bear. When the Generalissimo first appointed him to the economic post last month, Chiang Ching-kuo started out quietly by ordering price ceiling lists displayed at all markets, and setting up post boxes for citizens' complaints. A hundred plainclothes agents were assigned to comb streets and markets for price violators and hoarders...
...came the crackdown on real big shots. The day China's new currency was announced, all stock exchange transactions were frozen. The day before the announcement, a traders' pool, working on inside information, dumped 30 million shares on the market in what Shanghai papers dubbed "Operation Giant Bear." Promptly arrested as broker for the deal was Tu Vee-pin, son of Tu Yueh-sheng, president of Shanghai's stock exchange and one of the most powerful men in Shanghai. Big merchant hoarders and price riggers were also pulled...
Under Miranda's tough-trading direction, IAPI in the postwar years rolled up huge profits buying wheat and other foodstuffs cheap from Argentine farmers and selling abroad for all the traffic would bear. Lately Miranda's all-the-traffic-will-bear policy has backfired. Because he jacked the price of linseed oil skyhigh, U.S. farmers took up flax-growing. Result: the U.S. this year produced its first exportable surplus of linseed oil in history. Argentina has lost its U.S. and British markets, and IAPI is stuck with 325,000 tons of the stuff...