Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appreciation of services rendered to our cause at the Security Council," read the front-page advertisement in Cairo's Al Assas (The Foundation), "our premises present, for ten days only, at less than cost price, Paris El Khoury silk at $2.41 per meter and Gromyko satin at $1.99 per meter...
...Army put him in power originally; once in power, Perón fashioned his second string. He wooed the Argentine workers, granted them raises in pay, promised social laws. This new force was enough to return him to power when the Army forced him out in October 1945, enough to win him the election in February...
...Perón may soon be forced to choose between his bowstrings. The Army blame his labor laws and his inflationary wage increases for the country's deteriorating economy; but if he tries to withdraw the favors granted, he runs the risk of losing labor support. If he does nothing, and the economy worsens, his split with the Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note...
...Perón's book, "nefarious forces" (see above) included the non-Government press. The right-wing Provincias Unidas had already been closed; the Communist Hora was barred from the mails. Passengers on incoming planes were being relieved of their copies of TIME, LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post. Newsstand shipments of TIME were getting "lost" in the Argentine customs. Last week the 52-year-old Socialist bi-weekly Vanguardia, outspokenly anti-Perón, was hit hard; the Buenos Aires municipal government shut down its printing plant. The deadpan reason: its newsprint rolls, unloaded on the sidewalk, obstructed...
...quantities of natural gas. Aside from the loss in fuel, this practice has caused an even more important drop in underground gas pressure, by which much oil is brought to the surface. In West Edmond alone, venting last year reached an estimated volume of 250,000,000 cubic feet per...