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...Service Act is that all foreigners, whether they pay British taxes or not, are entitled to free treatment under the National Health Service Act. Last spring a doctor in Calais complained that his French patients were crossing the Channel to get free British treatment; some were reported to have resold their free dentures and spectacles on the Continent...
...time when as a young man he moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and added to the family business a freighter bought on credit. He quickly gathered headway. At the end of World War I, with a credit of $10 million, he got 148 surplus U.S. ships, resold them at a handsome profit. Then he bought into the Mihanovich Line in his adopted Argentina, owned it 15 years later. By World War II, Dodero had over 300 ships, plus a choice assortment of real estate and other properties. In 1944, his war-cargoed ships alone netted...
...paved the way for land reform; the estates of the old gentry had been bought and resold to 5,000,000 new, small, independent holders. It had given Japanese politics a new look; at parliamentary elections for the first time in history, candidates for office had gone hat in hand to solicit votes from ordinary folk...
...named Henry Eric Wells, who made a small fortune last week from Dido's suicide. He showed the painting to an art expert, discovered it was from the hand of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens (who had painted another well-known Dido in the same pose, and resold...
...tips this year. "Whenever I sold a car," he testified, "I expected something as a tip . . . They do it all over the country." Raymond J. Kearney, co-owner of the agency with brother Robert, admitted that his allowances on trade-ins were far less than their value. He resold the cars at profits which averaged a whopping 95.4%. It was "good business," said Kearney, and he was still making "less than the national average...