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While the rest of Venezuela battened on oil, the cattlemen struggled with the legacy of civil wars, a virulent malaria known as la fiebre económica (Venezuelans quip that if it hits in the morning, your only expense is a coffin at night) and the 27-year exploitation of Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gómez. Their worst headache: the senseless three-to-four-week trek to Gómez's slaughterhouse near the coast (over 20% of the cattle's weight was lost...
These were outward signs last week, two months after V-E day, that the econ omy of western Europe was still paralyzed...
Hereafter the doors in Pol. Econ, I will be closed and locked at five minutes past the hour...
...problem of restoring France's econ omy was chiefly a question of finding men to do the work. One of the points that Marshal Pétain discussed with the Armis tice Commission was the return of 1,500,000 French prisoners of war, still held in German prison camps. In central and southern France were 10,000,000 refugees waiting to be conveyed back into territory occupied by Nazis. There were 1,200,000 Belgians waiting to be sent back to Belgium. To repair railroads and highways, reconstruct bridges destroyed by German bombs, the Premier last week mobilized...
...Perkins (Hist. & Lit.), Dr. Williamson (Econ.): Tues. 7-8 o'clock...