Word: peso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chuquicamata. Braden Copper Co. was feeding not only workers but the unemployed of Rancagua at the rate of 3,000 loaves of bread per day. Inability to import enough food results partly from the Chilean Government's long-standing policy of restricting foreign exchange movements to support the peso-a policy denounced last week by Senor Julio Perez Canto who happens to be Chile's Minister of Finance. In secret, illegal exchange dealings pesos changed hands in Santiago last week at 50 and more to the dollar. The official rate is 16. Chileans were facing simultaneously a four...
...Colon could not retrench; immediately after the successful 1931 season it had signed contracts with Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and Coloratura Soprano Lily Pons. But there was no cause for regret. When Lauri-Volpi departed last month he flung exuberantly to the Argentine internal loan fund 50,000 pesos ($12,500), half of his season fee. Pretty Lily Pons got more: $27,000 for the season. Her Lucia and Lakme spellbound the critics, brought the scalpers as much as five times the box office price. No less did the svelte Pons figure and dark Pons lashes please the Argentinians. Last...
...Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented acres. On international exchange the Mexican peso promptly slumped to 3.75 to the dollar, lowest this year...
...Mexico City, neighbors of Leonardo Uribe were impressed when every night he carried home a bulging moneybag of 1,000-peso capacity. One night thieves halted Leonardo Uribe, seized his moneybag, opened it, found inside two old boots. The thieves fell upon Leonardo Uribe, beat him to death...
First act of Tsar Calles was to abolish the gold standard for Mexico, make the silver peso the only legal tender. Managing Director Alberto Mascarenas of the Bank of Mexico followed with the announcement that the entire issue of Mexico's gold notes would be withdrawn from circulation and burned...