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...sixth royalty (70 million barrels) in kind from the big private companies and then reselling most of it back to them at scarcity prices, the government was ringing up a fancy profit. Venezuelan Oil Czar Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, in a deal that would give Argentine State Trader Miguel Miranda a dose of his own medicine, was ready to barter 2 million barrels of Venezuela's high-priced oil for Miranda's expensive beef. Oil-starved Argentines thought the medicine not too bitter...
Spring even appeared to soften the heart of Argentine economic czar Miguel Miranda. Last week Miranda closed a deal with a U.S. Army mission for the sale of 28,110 tons of Argentine corn at the reasonable price of $104 a ton ($2.66 a bushel). He also announced that Argentina, if it could get oil and other transportation necessities, would be happy to sell all grains at the "world price." No one knew exactly what the "world price" was, but the U.S. hoped it would be less than the exorbitant $5.90 a bushel Argentina has been getting from hungry Europe...
...attacks, and also brought about counterattacks. Tubby, nearsighted, German-born Rodolfo Katz, whose weekly Mimeographed Economic Survey has long predicted economic troubles, was taken for a ride and beaten up by men masquerading as policemen. The nationalist Tribuna, which has centered its fire on pale-faced, pudgy Miguel Miranda, Perón's financial czar and president of the Central Bank, was closed on "technical grounds...
Married. Maria do Carmo da Cunha (Carmen Miranda), 33, turbaned Brazilian cinema songstress; and David Sebastian, 38, film producer; both for the first time; in Los Angeles...
...some roads). But watered stock, low rates (fixed by the Government) and truck competition cut into dividends; for years the British owners have been dickering to sell out. Last week's ceremony in the Salon Blanco of the Casa Rosada (Government House), where Economic Czar Miguel Miranda and British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper (for the British shareholders) signed the bill of sale, finally ended the negotiations...