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Sponsored by "Artists and Writers For Hughes," the sale will include works of painters, sculptors, graphic artists and writers from throughout the country...
...disastrous upward spiral. With export income and foreign investment at a standstill, governments are forced to borrow or print money to support domestic industries and put their growing populations to work. But the increased currency in circulation is not matched by an equivalent increase in goods for sale. Thus prices climb higher, and the cost of living rises far faster than the world average. In the past five years, the cost of living jumped 212% in Argentina, 158% in Bolivia. 146% in Brazil, 111% in Chile, 133% in Uruguay...
Water Buffalo Hide. The Revised Standard Version was not considered a likely source of profit in 1936 when Nelson decided to help the National Council of Churches finance the revision in return for a ten-year exclusive license on its sale. Many churchmen and publishers thought the RSV could never make a dent in King James Version sales, but it now accounts for a fifth of the U.S. market. When scholars finally finished the RSV in 1952, Nelson spent $3,000,000 on preparation and plates, sank a phenomenal $500,000 in promotion the first year of publishing, followed...
This sudden architectural flowering is only an outward manifestation of the spirit of the world's richest and most incredible city-a clangorous concatenation of wealth and squalor, the crowded island that is a center of culture and a hotbed of crime, a place where everything is for sale, and anything can be done. This tremendous outpouring of energy and treasure ranges from apartment houses to bus terminals, from office buildings to slum-clearance projects (see color pages...
Whisky& Willowy Women. Subject to approval by the Bank of England and the French Ministry of Finance-which so far have declined any public comment on the sale-the 166-year-old British firm plans to put approximately $3,000,000 into Chateau Latour precisely in order to bypass middlemen. Under the driving leadership of George E. McWatters, 40, a fourth-generation descendant of the first John Harvey, Harvey's since World War II has been buttoning up its sources of supply. The company has taken over two prime producers of Portuguese port, has a working agreement with...