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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voted to resume payment on long-defaulted bonds held in the U.S., in hopes of getting a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan. But both Chile's and Peru's prospects for new U.S. loans are poor. Perhaps, in the long run, the Strong Man will be a bigger help than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Dollars to Peanuts | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

School of Experience. In Los Angeles, truant officers checking Santa Anita race track found no truant schoolchildren, but flushed bigger game: a hookey-playing Pasadena principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...suspiciously quiet that Detroit guessed it was glad to get rid of the job. Car makers felt that Continental could make motors faster than K-F could use them and so could not make money on the comparatively small production K-F could absorb. Nor was the outlook for bigger K-F production bright. The straight-from-the-shoulder facts last week were that, even in a still tight auto market, Kaisers and Frazers were not selling too well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Drive Them off the Floor | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

There was still a fair amount of wheat on U.S. farms, but the railroads were bringing comparatively little of it to the market. And the Government had been a heavy buyer of what was delivered. Yet the winter wheat promises to be a bumper crop, even bigger than last year's whopper. The U.S. will probably be able to ship as much wheat to Europe as last year and still have a small surplus. Eyeing all this, traders expected wheat to be down to around $2.16 by July and they were buying for future delivery on that basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: How High Is Up? | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Sent back another bigger slice...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: Circling the Square | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

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