Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh Symphony (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Alexander Gretchaninov's Fifth Symphony; excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Czar Saltan...
...economic czar, Howe can grant permits for the importation of manufacturing machinery. He will be able to force Canadian branch plants of U.S. companies (there are 2,000 of them in Canada) to stop importing parts, begin making their own with Canadian raw materials. He will be able to shut any plant that does not cooperate. He will have the power to step up exploitation of Canadian resources. Gold mines, for example, will get a $7-an-ounce subsidy for every ounce they produce over their output in the twelve months ending last June 30. Coal production will be stimulated...
Spring even appeared to soften the heart of Argentine economic czar Miguel Miranda. Last week Miranda closed a deal with a U.S. Army mission for the sale of 28,110 tons of Argentine corn at the reasonable price of $104 a ton ($2.66 a bushel). He also announced that Argentina, if it could get oil and other transportation necessities, would be happy to sell all grains at the "world price." No one knew exactly what the "world price" was, but the U.S. hoped it would be less than the exorbitant $5.90 a bushel Argentina has been getting from hungry Europe...
...sounded good, but how good? Thomas Colt Jr., director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, had no idea. All he knew was that a wealthy Mrs. John Lee Pratt had willed to the museum her collection of the last Russian Czar's family trinkets...
...Said Czar Jimmy: "I've never been called a bluffer. We're either right or we're wrong, and I think we're right. And don't be quoting me as saying all I want to do is love...