Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another U.S. businessman interested in making a deal with Peron & Co. is Financier Floyd Odium (Atlas Corp.). After first seeking an oil concession in central Argentina, Odium offered an elaborate oil-uranium investment package. Perón himself seemed willing to do business, but nationalist politicos and army officers around him objected strenuously to letting a Yanqui get his hands on Argentine natural resources. Last week, having given the Argentines 30 days to make up their minds, Odium was back in the U.S. waiting for a yes or (more likely...
...nations as equals, strengthening her flank in a great and historic continental combination?" This question dominated the official Peronista press as Henry Holland's airplane landed in Buenos Aires. As part of the process of answering, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State next morning talked privately with Juan Peron. Whatever the Secretary said (in fluent, Mexican-accented Spanish) and heard, the chat set a sunny tone for his visit...
...banquet the night before he left, Holland offered a rich, buttery toast to Peron: "A great American, a great Argentine-" Peron ordered out his personal DC-4 to take Holland to Chile, and the Peronista press wrote: "We received Mr. Holland with a question. His attitude these past three days has been a full and satisfactory reply...
Tempted by Juan Peron's new friendliness, two major U.S. businessmen tested the waters of Argentine investment last week and seemed quite ready and willing to wade...
Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odlum was in Buenos Aires for the second time. On his first trip, in June, he had proposed only to produce crude oil at Neuquen, 600 miles southwest of Buenos Aires and to build a pipeline to get it out (TIME, June 14). Peron approved, but nationalistic politicians and army officers raised the old cry of foreign exploitation. Odium countered by dressing up his deal with a plan that combines the oil project, an investment company that would put the blocked pesos of U.S. companies to work and-most glitteringly-atomic energy. Under this proposal...