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...sake of recovery as "that blah-blah." All through the sweltering summer of 1933, bands of lobbyists and executives wandered in and out of Washington offices, trying to figure out which code covered them and what it was supposed to say. Johnson managed to get the entire cotton textile industry organized in June. But Henry Ford, who accounted for 21% of all auto sales, refused to have anything to do with such Government interference, and Johnson had no power to coerce anyone except by threatening "a punch in the nose." What Johnson did have was an instinctive genius for what...
...shape for that kind of sacrifice. The country is attracting virtually no foreign investments, and international banks are phasing out loans as they come due. Tourism, once Guatemala's third largest source of foreign exchange, has dwindled to a trickle. Major export crops such as coffee and cotton are also suffering. The economy is stagnant; the country's foreign exchange reserves have fallen from $718 million in 1979 to an estimated $70 million today...
There were six registered miracles in Montana's time at Notre Dame, more than enough to elevate anyone to the rank of blessed. In his final college game, in arctic conditions at the Cotton Bowl, the Irish lagged behind Houston 34-12, almost as if to test the limit of his magic. Montana got to work, and with four seconds left, a pass play to Kris Haines would have scored the winning touchdown, except Haines slipped. Kris remembers: "We went back into the huddle with two seconds to go, and Joe said, 'Don't worry...
Montana, a hero for Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl just three years ago, completed 14 of 22 passes for 156 yards...
...rubles that can be used only to settle bills within the Soviet-bloc Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), some of it in hard currencies that can buy goods or pay debts in the West. But the Soviet Union also supplies its allies with oil, natural gas, iron ore, cotton, timber and other commodities, all at prices below those prevailing on world markets. In exchange, the Kremlin buys Czech shoes, Polish machinery and Rumanian textiles that are too poorly made to sell in the West. According to Jan Vanous, a specialist on Soviet-bloc economies at the Wharton Econometrics Forecasting...