Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hair Raiser...
...been brewing in New York for decades. Gian-Carlo Menotti, young Italian-born American composer, has written an opera, and unlike most of his fellow composers, he has had the right combination of skill and luck to get it produced-at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre along with his curtain-raiser, "The Telephone...
...dictator has averaged $1,000 a day from his salt monopoly. The national lottery, nominally run by his brother-in-law Ramon Savinon, nets $15,000 a month. Brother Anibal makes the mahogany concession worth $400,000 a year. But the slickest parlay is in cattle. The biggest cattle raiser in the Republic, the Benefactor operates the most modern slaughterhouse, and sets his own price on all cattle sold in the country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef to their Puerto Rican...
...Washington and New York on more than white-tie business. His Government, only five months in office, wants U.S. money to help along a half-billion-dollar program to raise the standard of living for Mexicans. Miguel Aléman is the sponsor of the plan and its fund raiser...
Varsity distance men who figured they would escape running up against Tuft's Ted Vogel this spring got a surprise yesterday when they learned that the Jumbos will meet Harvard on April 26, instead of in the April 19 curtain-raiser, as was originally planned...