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...follow the stockmarket. The biggest investor in the Cia. Colombiana de Tabaco, the country's No. 2 enterprise, owns no more than 3% of the stock. When a new hotel or steel plant is launched, the stock issue is subscribed practically overnight. It is as though every Antioquian peso were motorized to rush into the breach at the first opportunity...
...cream-colored Casino, two Syrian textile magnates risked a fortune at baccarat. Smartly dressed socialites played roulette with 100 peso* chips; their cooks were there, too-risking two peso chips on the wheel's turn. If the season ran true to form, at least one despondent loser would sooner or later plunge into the two-foot-deep canal outside the Casino, be ignominiously fished out of the mud unhurt...
...Chilean peso is worth 4?. A smart operator once bought a 30,000 peso stack, of chips (worth $1,200) at Viña, flew to Montevideo where a casino used identical chips, cashed them for 30,000 Uruguayan pesos-worth...
Today Marie Schultze dreams of the time when she can build a big maternity hospital and nurses' training school. The plans are drawn. She is trying to raise the money, peso by peso. Of her dream she says: "I pray again as these new ideas unfold before me that I may be used wherever and however He would have me, and that I may have an open mind and heart to hear His voice...
...transport was so old and overburdened that Pedro had to get up an hour early to catch the streetcar to work. To save money, Pedro had also stopped lunching downtown, and that meant another scramble for a ride home. Maria, his wife, knew how to stretch a peso, but the noonday meal seldom varied from the traditional puchero (meat and vegetable stew...