Word: pesos
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...library of 2,500 books. It includes many prized volumes of Mexican history, gilt-titled editions of Marx, Engels, Hegel, Kant, Darwin and Spencer. Two years ago, in order to help finance his left-wing Popular Party, Lombardo put up his library as collateral for a 6,000-peso ($696) loan from the government's cooperative bank...
...million Americans were, or would be, crossing to Canada for the fishing, the scenery and the $1.10 dollar; thousands more, mostly Texans and Californians, were heading down Mexico's modern, gas-station-studded highways for the Old-World atmosphere, the bullfights, the silver jewelry and the cheap peso, and a healthy minority from the East were bound for Bermuda's pink sands or for the West Indies, with its palm trees and invigorating cheap...
Bernardo survived all other contestants on Radio El Mundo's Today We Have an Examination, a quiz program sponsored by a big Buenos Aires confectioner. To the 6,250-peso ($695) question, "What is a lararium?" Bernardo answered correctly: "The niche in a Roman house where the domestic gods were worshiped...
Competing for the 300,000-peso ($34,000) top prizes were 132 two-man teams including such hot drivers as Indianapolis Speedway veteran Johnny Mantz, Italy's Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1948 Grand Prix de Berne auto race, and President Miguel Aleman's chauffeur, whose handsome new Cadillac, fresh from the palace garage, bore the name Coche México. There was a Los Angeles war veteran driving a 13-year-old Cord, a red-haired torch singer from Mexico City, a Texas grandmother sponsored by a brassiere manufacturer, and a 70-year-old Arizona widow with...
...Allow Pan American Airways and Panagra to transfer a backlog of profits earned before October's devaluation of the peso into dollars at pre-devaluation rates...