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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...output of the Patino mines-about half Bolivia's production. And last week there were encouraging reports that the Patino interests were about ready to settle with government negotiators on the big question of compensation. Such a deal, reported to provide for payment of 5% of net sales into a fund from which the former owners would be reimbursed, could set the pattern for a settlement with all shareholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The High Cost of Revolution | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...philosophy of expanding production at guaranteed high prices glutted even the hungry postwar markets -and with some disastrous results. The classic example was the great 1948-50 potato glut; millions of bushels, bought by the Government to support prices, had to be dyed blue and kept off the market. Net loss to the U.S. through the potato program: $478 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Apostle at Work | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...happy in the cities which welcome him back year after year: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Nev., Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and a dozen places in between. He will travel with his own troupe of eleven musicians, a magician, and assorted singers and dancers, and will net himself around $8,000 a week. But everywhere he goes, 61-year-old Ted Lewis will be able to warm up his listeners with reminiscences of the barnstorming days before the going was so good-being booked into store-front vaudeville at $22.50 a week and changing his name every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hands, Hat & Cane | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...vice president and general manager. At Thompson's death* in 1933, Crawford took over a company with gross sales of $3,000,000. He ran it so well that last year its sales topped $270 million- a growth of 8,900% in 20 years-and its net profits are estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Jet-Propelled Individualist | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

outward from net and from shore...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Paris Review | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

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