Word: debts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since May, U.S.-Argentine trade has increased roughly 50%. The Argentines are gradually paying off their short-term U.S. debt. Perón has told Bruce that Argentina, which once more is trading at world prices, will shortly fold up its state-trading agency...
...best in the show, a tempera House by the Seashore (see cut) by the University of Wisconsin's Ray Obermayr, owed an obvious debt to the two living U.S. masters: Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper. It struck a low blue note characteristic of the exhibition as a whole. Buffalo's Hubert Raczka had painted a lonely little figure through the bars of a fire escape, called it Insignificance. The Portland Museum School's Robert Galaher had wrapped his hulking Circus Worker in a sad, smokelike haze, and Milwaukee's John Pagac had contributed a fatly photographic...
...cities teemed with unemployed, her factories were producing less steel, less cotton cloth and less jute than before independence. Prices were three times as high as in 1939. Last year India imported 2,200,000,000 rupees ($665 million) more than she exported ; she was deep in debt for the balance. Said Nehru in his Independence Day message: "Criticism and self-criticism are always welcome provided they do not take the place of work. Today, India demands work from her children...
...feeling was probably as unreasonable as the weather, but it was just as inescapable. For daddy too was tired. His back ached from the strain, he was feeling economic chills, and he was running into debt. Life was just one crisis after another, bearing ugly, stubby nicknames like...
...enabled Waltham to reorganize. A Senate committee began digging into the RFC's records, found that the RFC had been an open door to high-salaried jobs in other companies which it had bailed out. In 4½-years, 20 RFC employees had joined companies that were in debt to the RFC. Like Hagerty, many of them had recommended loans for their future employers. Examples of other shifts...