Word: mirandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
...Under Miranda's tough-trading direction, IAPI in the postwar years rolled up huge profits buying wheat and other foodstuffs cheap from Argentine farmers and selling abroad for all the traffic would bear. Lately Miranda's all-the-traffic-will-bear policy has backfired. Because he jacked the price of linseed oil skyhigh, U.S. farmers took up flax-growing. Result: the U.S. this year produced its first exportable surplus of linseed oil in history. Argentina has lost its U.S. and British markets, and IAPI is stuck with 325,000 tons of the stuff...