Word: peso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...various questions" mentioned by Mexico's President might include: 1) further U.S. purchases of Mexican silver, to help stabilize the peso; 2) U.S. tariff concessions on Mexican products, to help redress Mexico's unfavorable trade balance ; 3) a trade agreement to assure Mexico a supply of U.S. machinery and raw materials* 4) settlement of such tiny but touchy international issues as the boundary dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over the Chamizal territory (about one square mile) on the Texas border...
...available to Mexico in loans and credits-half through the Treasury, half through the Export-Import Bank. Export-Import's $30,000,000 will be used for building roads, developing Mexican agriculture, etc. Treasury's $30,000,000 will be used to stabilize the peso. From this fund will come a $9,000,000 "token payment" to U.S. oil companies while negotiations for a final settlement are in progress...
...Buenos Aires, peso-a-dozen rumors had it that the Argentine Government was about to wash its official hands of the Germans. There was a spectacular roundup of Nazi suspects, 30 of whom languished incommunicado in jail to face charges of siphoning off 95% of German Winter Relief contributions, piping the funds into propaganda channels...
...also become the father of a daughter; name, Elisa. Army and Navy planes zoomed low over the Palace to drop bouquets of flowers. Happy Fulgencio Batista decreed that every child born on the same day (about 180 new Cubans arrive daily) should receive a brand-new ten-peso note, a five-peso savings account and a shinv medal...
...credit for foodstuffs from her former colony. Argentina was on the U. S.'s books for just about the same amount-$60,000,000 from Pierson, to be spent in the U. S., plus a $50,000,000 stabilization fund from the U. S. Treasury to support her peso. When Pierson heard of this flirtation, he said: "No part of the U. S. loan will go to Spain. . . . Such stories are pure fantasy," pointed out that Argentina had not as yet drawn a cent on her grant. Yet Spain and Argentina have done business before, and last week Argentina...