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Said Economic Czar Miguel Miranda last week: "The future of Argentina, as I see it, is very brilliant, because our products are bound to give us all we need." At such talk many an Argentine businessman winced. All around were signs that the economy of the country was sick and getting sicker week by week...
Meat exports were declining alarmingly. Because the government had dillydallied with new export rules, trading in hides and skins had all but stopped. Miranda had priced linseed oil right out of the export market. To save its vanishing dollar exchange, the government was even making it hard for immigrants to send money home to Europe (contrary to the immigration treaties with Italy and Spain...
...Central Bank last week, importers and exporters found it almost impossible to learn where the country stood on the foreign exchange transactions, and no wonder. The bank had no head. Bank President Orlando Maroglio, outspoken foe of Miranda's high-price policies, had finally given up his fight with the economic czar (TIME, Oct.11), and resigned...
Newspaper properties are part of the Peronista control of the press. Bigger & better than Eva's firm is the Compania ALEA, whose stockholders include the Perons and Economic Boss Miguel Miranda. ALEA controls three B.A. papers, has been buying up provincial journals...
...Angeles, Carmen Miranda, who in private life is Mrs. David Sebastian, was feeling best of all. The high-strung Brazilian with the high-riding hats announced that she was going to have a baby, her first, some time next...