Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai Movie Producer Wu Hsin-tsai had a brilliant idea. He would produce a comedy about barbers; Shanghai's 50,000 barbers would flock to it; they would talk about it in their barbershops. If each mentioned it to ten customers, box-office returns at $10,000 CN per seat (about 20? U.S.) would be incalculable...
...tall, whip-smart young Jesuit named Father Hernan Benitez saw to it that Eva Perén's visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...
...recent coal-mine wage boosts, said steelmen, were the last straw on a pile of increased costs which they have been absorbing. The increases in steel wages last spring, said Republic, had amounted to "approximately $4.50 per ton of steel" and had caused a drop in the second quarter profits (see Earnings...
National Steel's Chairman Ernest Tener Weir figured that his costs since the first quarter, aside from those on coal, had risen $11 per ton of steel. His breakdown: scrap $4, labor $4, fuel oil $1, miscellaneous $1, depreciation $1. Scrap prices, which have jumped over $10 in two months, are now at an alltime high average of about $40 a ton and still rising. Under such conditions, said steelmen, boosts in the prices of finished steel were not only warranted but "imperative...
...aspect of the North's new responsibility: in Manhattan's overcrowded Harlem slums, venereal disease is up 188% (to 38 cases per 1,000) since...