Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Clark's analysis, whatever industrial progress Russia has made has been largely offset by agricultural stagnation. Soviet productivity, rated in 1900 at .15 IUs (15? worth of goods per man-hour, at U.S. 1925-34 prices), dropped to .10 after the land reforms of 1918-19; it rose to .16 in 1927-28, but forced collectivization of farms in 1928-33 pulled the level down to .12. No Soviet statistics for the war years are available, but by 1947 Soviet productivity had climbed back to .14 IUs, just under the 1900 level. The U.S., on the other...
Juan and Evita Perón were waiting on the terrace when the Cadillac turned in at the presidential residence. Before U.S. Ambassador and Mrs. James Bruce could get out of the car, Evita's toy poodle hopped right into Mrs. Bruce...
From start to finish, last week's farewell party for the retiring ambassador* and his wife was a happy get-together of good friends. Evita brought a new portrait down from the second floor to show her guests. Perón gave his friend Don Jaime a hand-tooled Belgian automatic shotgun, just the gift for an ambassador whose favorite Argentine sport has been weekend partridge shooting (in the Gaucho getup given him by Defense Minister Humberto Sosa Molina...
Gifts for a Friend. Perón also wanted to give his guest the Order of the Liberator San Martin, but Bruce begged off. Ambassadors, he said, ought not to take medals from foreign governments. "The main thing I want from you," he said, "is your autographed photograph." At dinner he got it, a huge picture inscribed to "mi gran amigo." He also got a Peronista button for his lapel and a small "loyalty medal," an unofficial Peronista emblem which the President had previously given only to members of his household...
During his two years in Buenos Aires, big Jim Bruce had seen U.S.-Argentine relations hit bottom, then start an upward climb. With dogged good will he had brushed aside one anti-U.S. press campaign after another. Perón and Bruce seemed to hit it off well together. Bruce, a millionaire who knew how to run a business, never lost a chance to lecture the President on economics. "Let the Argentine economy alone," he kept repeating. "Don't tinker with...