Word: peso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next move was the peso. The U.S. agreed to make available to the Banco de Mexico $40,000.000 to stabilize the peso...
...return for Mexico's cooperation, the U.S. is prepared to offer three inducements: 1) a currency deal to stabilize the peso; 2) a loan to improve Mexico's railroads and highways; 3) increased purchases of Mexican silver...
...currency deal will be handled by the Treasury from its $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund. The Treasury will buy pesos at a fixed price (probably 4.85 to the dollar); the Bank of Mexico will stand ready to buy them back, thus pegging the peso at its present level. About $30,000,000 is reportedly involved in this deal. From this money the Mexican Government would expect to make a token payment to U.S. oil companies...
...began working on an Argentine plantation other workers trickled, then streamed, to him for cures. As the years passed, more and more upper-class sick appeared. Among the poor people's gifts of fruit and wood, Tupá Mbaé began to find one, five and ten peso notes. One day he got the idea that he could live by medicine alone. Near Oberá, Argentina, he built up a practice of 10,000 patients...
...Manila Times. Later he returned to the U.S., but after a freezing winter in Manhattan he went back to Manila for good. Said he: "I can make a living in New York if I have to-but I don't have to." In 1908, for one peso (50?), he bought name, good will and subscription list of a defunct weekly. In the beginning he was its entire editorial and business staff. He upset the American colony (and once was threatened with deportation) because he insisted on giving Filipinos their just dues in U.S.-Filipino squabbles. But the Free Press...