Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as President Juan Domingo Perón gave the signal last fall, Argentina's Government press went lyrical over his Five-Year Plan. The Plan Quinquenal, chorused the press, would bring hydroelectric plants, irrigation, new ports, housing, highways, airports and all the benefits of modern industrialization to Argentina. The cost: $1,650,000,000. But for several months now Perón's papers have been silent. Last week the reason for the silence became as obvious as the unbuilt dams. Argentina is short of money for the plan...
...plight of the plan, and of Argentina, was summed up in a blunt letter written to Perón by slim, brisk Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired. As president of the Inter-American Construction Corp., Lord was hired by Perón last winter (TIME, Feb. 3) to draw blueprints for the plan's engineering projects. From his cluttered headquarters on Buenos Aires' Calle Uruguay, General Lord wrote...
Brendan Reilly, one of only three Varsity pitchers after Bill Connolly was declared ineligible, ranked fourth in the League in earned runs with an average of 2.25 per game. Jack Wallace was twelfth with 3.89 but had the better won-lost record of the two with 4 and 2. Reilly had 2 wins as against 3 losses...
Photographs for the Register, which will appear some time before Thanks-giving, will be taken at the H.A.A. physical efficiency step test at the rate of 60 men per hour...
...Canada's 3,695,000 square miles, only 5% have ever been mapped in detail on an inch-per-mile scale. There are still enormous areas in the north and west where rivers, lakes and topographical contours are uncharted, or marked only by dotted lines-the cartographer's indication of uncertainty...