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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia (1919-30), who borrowed heavily to build roads, improve sanitation and ease the lot of Peru's predominantly Indian population. Wide-girthed President Oscar Raimundo Benavides has continued this program with increased road building, industrial development, compulsory social insurance, severance...
...personality and all. Going last week to succeed Dr. Frederick Carlos Ferry, who is retiring after 21 years as Hamilton's president, Bill Cowley professed to be not worried but delighted at Hamilton's sturdy traditions, which he thought offered him a strong foundation on which to build...
Last winter when a syndicate of Hollywood bigwigs, headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., succeeded in getting permission to build a second racetrack in Los Angeles County (to operate during the summer), local businessmen suddenly went mum. They decided to wait until the community was saturated with year-round racing before attempting any organized crusade against...
...subsidizing U. S. shipping at an annual cost of $20,000,000. Under the new Merchant Marine Act the Maritime Commission was empowered to provide "differential" subsidies for U. S. shipping to establish "competitive equality" in foreign trade. By last week eight U. S. shipping companies, having agreed to build 50 new ships in the next six years, had subsidy agreements with the Maritime Commission totalling about...
...Contracted when the Shipping Board loaned Panama Pacific money to build the ships...