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Word: salvadoreans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Placed on sale early last week in Salvadorean banks, the bonds sold briskly to shop girls, taxi drivers and other small citizens. Less than $400,000 worth were bought by members of the Twenty Families. At week's end the $5,000,000 issue was entirely subscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Discovery of a Middle Class | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...competition from Europe. In Caracas, Importer Eugenio Mendoza explained that he had stopped buying U.S. structural steel because Belgian, German and Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Is Back | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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