Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's standard claim to vast economic progress got one more ringing refutation last week. After long study, Australian economist Colin Clark documented his conclusion that the rate of Soviet production per man-hour of work was less than one-eighth that of the U.S. "Economic progress in Russia," said Clark, "has been uncertain and slow, and the most recent figures indicate that productivity is now only at about [its] 1900 level...
...Russians, Clark finds, have achieved only one-fourth the productivity of Britain, two-fifths that of France. Russia is in a class with such economically backward countries as Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Brazil and Turkey. It leads India, which produces only half as much per man-hour as Russia, and China, whose productivity rate was only one-fourth of the U.S.S.R...
Last fortnight, puzzled by his Foreign Minister's and his Ambassador's widely divergent estimates of U.S. sentiment toward Argentina, Perón decided to find out who was right. Without bothering to consult the sensitive Bramuglia, he called Remorino home. In an early-morning session in the President's Casa Rosada office, the two men were asked to explain the difference in their views. Words passed, tempers rose. Bramuglia accused Remorino of plotting to get his job. Finally, his composure lost, the Foreign Minister used the classic Spanish obscenity about a man's mother. Then...
Question of Honor. Perón accepted the resignation, but the question of Remorino's honor had still to be settled. Remorino challenged Bramuglia to a duel. When their seconds met in Buenos Aires' Hotel Continental, Bramuglia had an explanation : the ex-Foreign Minister had no recollection of having called Remorino a bad name. Since this amounted to a retraction, the duel was called...
Meanwhile, to fill the cabinet vacancy, Perón dredged up a little-known criminal lawyer named Hipólito Jesús Paz, 32. A moderate nationalist, the new Foreign Minister is a junior partner in a Buenos Aires law firm whose clients include the notorious Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker. As for Private Citizen Bramuglia, a poor man, he planned to practice law after a trip...