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...show them how high returns might run. It offered them ready-built plants at low rent, loans from the Fomento bank, cheap power from the efficient Water Resources Board, accurate statistics. Nor did Fomento wait for investors to come. Ted Moscoso can often be seen in Fomento's plush offices in the new Tishman Building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, striding down a corridor on his way for some "belly-to-belly selling" of a businessman interested in setting up a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico. "We have learned," he says, "that the U.S. businessmen we deal with...
MOTEL SURGE will lure more note's into $1.5 billion yearly business. Salt Lake City's rich, old (since 1911") Hotel Utah will soon complete West's biggest (154 units), costliest (about $3.5 million) motel within two blocks of hotel. Features: four plush "penthouses," swimming pool, underground auditorium with capacity...
Needed: Money & Skills. Ireland is rolling out the plush green carpet because her few young, overprotected industries do not begin to supply home needs for manufactured goods. Imports last year rose to $512 million, exports stood at $368 million, and Ireland had to battle an overall trade imbalance of $144 million...
...trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct. None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of them. She was a hopeless romantic-but she had the sense to know it. "I do not object to realism in fiction," she wrote, "but the passion flower is as real as the potato...
Seven-thirty that Saturday evening and the entire class, bathed, brushed, shined, combed, and shivering, hurries through the dark night and biting wind across the campus to Prospect Street, where the grounds of sixteen plush clubhouses--and the not-so-plush Prospect Cooperative Club--stretch before them. The luckiest ones have received several bids, and join one of the big five...