Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest move to ease one of the worst financial crises in Argentine history (TIME, May 31), the dollar-short Perón government last week cut the official base value of the peso from 4 to 4.86 to the dollar. (On the black market it went...
...President Perón's advisers had hoped that the decrees would get quick dollar relief via ECA, they got a rude shock at week's end. In Washington ECA published its biggest shopping list so far for Latin America. Heading the list was Chile, due to get $12,619,000 for copper and nitrogen fertilizer for Italy, France, Britain and The Netherlands. Mexico would receive $4,000,000 for corned beef for Germany, Venezuela $12 million for petroleum products for Europe. All told, the list totted up to $32,355,398. Argentina was not even...
...million installation of 74 elevators in the Empire State Building. But Westinghouse Electric, Otis' chief competitor, claims the world's fastest elevators: Rockefeller Center's bank of eight, which travel between the first and 65th floors of the RCA Building at 1,400 feet per minute, make passengers' ears pop with the fast change in atmospheric pressure...
...Prescribed rate of landing descent for U.S. airliners: 500 feet per minute...
...million) was found guilty of conspiring to give out false credit information. The company was also found guilty on four other counts, Angus on one other, and Carlson on three others. The bank and the officers face maximum penalties of a $500 fine on each count, plus three years per count for the individuals...