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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying this theme further, the opinion takers asked a true-or-false question: Is the U.S. trying to dominate Latin America economically for its own benefit? The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima. 62% in Mexico City, 61% in Bogota, 51% in Montevideo, 71% in Buenos Aires. But apparently some of those who answered true were not overly outraged at the notion of U.S. economic domination. More than 58% of the people polled (as high as 81% in Bogota) said they felt that the U.S. was still a good neighbor...
...carried the market down with them. Dow-Jones industrials tumbled 5.96 points in a single session, the biggest sell-off of the year. Then investors paused-and realized that panic is always unprofitable. As in the Suez crisis and other flareups, they turned their attentions to shares that might benefit from a harder U.S. stand. In buying surges that frequently left the ticker behind, investors sent industrials up 3.7 points to 486.55 and a new high for the year on the greatest weekly volume (15,395,350 shares...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, the reformed protectionist who has led the Administration's Capitol Hill campaign for the five-year bill, called the committee changes "unacceptable," vowed that the Administration would "fight to get the legislation that we think is to the benefit of this country." Due this week: a battle on the Senate floor to repair at least some of the Finance Committee's damage...
...Rochester, land shoppers are clamoring for attractive parcels of property. Only ten years ago Switzerland was the only European country in which a foreign broker could easily do business in real estate; today, firmer currencies have made the task much easier -and tremendously profitable. The firm that stands to benefit most by the boom is Manhattan's Previews, Inc., the world's only international clearinghouse for real estate, and an experienced dealer in both the exotic and the practical...
...Fringe Benefit. In Birmingham, England, a transport workers' union announced a new service for its 6,000 members: free legal aid in getting divorces...