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...many such jobs, Lord admits, Argentina will need U.S. help. By lavish spending, Argentina has pretty well used up its once fat foreign exchange hoard. For $5 wheat it now gets mostly I.O.U.s. Even the millions the U.S. is likely to spend in Argentina for ERP foodstuffs will help little, warns Lord, unless Argentina is allowed to buy U.S. machinery with it. "Steel," says he, "is the key to Argentina's program, and they will have...
After dawdling for four weeks, commodity prices turned and headed upward last week. The change in direction was largely due to the deliberate maneuvering of Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson, who, especially in an election year, is against falling prices when they strike at the farmer's hoard...
...enormous drama of his new position. The ship, already out of earshot, went trudging remorselessly on her way. Inspired, Tomas Montanez did not even cry out. He saw a tern flying overhead and told himself, fiercely, that this meant good luck. He began to swim, and pray, and hoard his strength...
...Canadian products (compared with $150 million in the first quarter of 1947). Britain will sell Canada an estimated $40 million worth of goods, $45 million can be drawn from the shrinking Canadian credit, and the remaining $100 million will be paid in U.S. dollars from Britain's hoard. If ERP meets Canada's hopes, she can afford to rewrite the three-month agreement, giving Britain better terms for a longer period...
...bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...