Word: peso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chatillon has made customer-shocking a million-peso-a-year business. For half an hour before the opening of his annual fashion show last week, the Packards and Cadillacs of traditionally tardy Mexico City society matrons tied up traffic in front of his combined atelier and home on the Paseo de la Reforma. Inside, they sipped cocktails and critically eyed U.S., French and Mexican mannequins in a display of 60 new models ranging from simple afternoon dresses to bare-top evening gowns at from 1,500 to 5,000 pesos each...
...Mexico City's swank Colonia Nápoles one evening last week, a string of expensive cars were parked outside Señora Rosa Rodriguez' mansion. Inside, a score of well-heeled, guests were gathered around card tables, sipping drinks and wagering 100-peso notes at canasta, poker and baccarat...
...make up for the drop in peso income, Gonzalez Videla was ready to ask Chile's Congress for permission to issue new paper money. With part of the money, backed by government-supported bonds, idle copper hands would be employed on public works projects...
...Plata's boom was brought by: 1) Argentina's hottest summer in 16 years; 2) currency difficulties that kept most Argentines away from Uruguay's resorts; 3) plenty of inflated pesos. Some of the pesos were flung away by newly rich industrialists plunging at punto y banco, a South American version of baccarat. But most of the money came from the pockets of vacationing descamisados, who preferred roulette. The casino's main hall looked like Macy's basement as players pushed and shoved to bet at the 71 roulette tables. Most of them ignored...
Without so much as looking at the Mimeographed budget report on their desks, Peronistas put through an 8.6 billion-peso ($1.8 billion) budget. In four hours they passed 28 bills, including one that would give the President a dictator's power: it authorized him to mobilize men and resources by decree whenever he thought the nation's welfare demanded it. Peronista deputies did not bother even to have the bill read aloud...