Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheapest grade of cooking oil shot up from 17? to 38? a liter (current Manhattan price: 47? a qt.). In Buenos Aires good sirloin steak that had cost 18? a Ib. the day before sold for 28? (Manhattan price: 79?). A housewives' group called on Congressmen, persuaded anti-Perón deputies to introduce a resolution to investigate the high cost of living...
...main props of Juan Perón's popularity has been his policy of holding retail food prices at artificially low levels. Last week the prop was unceremoniously yanked away. Argentines awoke to find the costs of basic foodstuffs up as much as 100% overnight...
...months, Buenos Aires intellectuals have been hearing rumors of-and holding heated arguments over-a new brain wave of the Perón government: a "draft law of the intellectual worker." Although the bill was submitted to Education Minister Oscar Ivanissevich last September, few of the debaters knew exactly what they were arguing about; the bill's provisions have never been officially disclosed...
...took 20 Ibs. per acre of old-style bait (bran and sawdust poisoned with arsenic) to control the hoppers. The newest bait (bran poisoned with chlordane or toxaphene) is so much more effective that five Ibs. per acre is enough unless the hoppers are almost full-grown. The biggest plane in use, a DC-3, spreads 20,000 acres every day. Since there are from 35 to 100 hoppers per square yard in the outbreak areas, a single DC-3 can kill several billions daily...
...with chemical fertilizers. He rigged pipes through it, brought in two 100-h.p. pumps to sprinkle it with 1,000 gallons of water a minute from a nearby pond. His only cost was gasoline for the pumps, labor to move the sprinklers, a total of only $10 to $15 per acre a season. This year, when drought withered the crops of thousands of New England farmers, Richards' well-watered acres flourished...