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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico had tried to live on a scale to which she had never been accustomed. For months the end of the boom had been in sight. In June 1947, luxury imports were forbidden. But Mexicans still wanted the good things of life. The end might be in sight, but there was no way of stopping the boom mentality until the end had actually come...
...lacklustre program, not liberal enough to steal votes from Mackenzie King, not conservative enough for right-wingers. Last week many Conservative bigwigs were pinning their party's main hopes on a tested Tory, big, handsome Premier George Drew of Ontario. So far, the only other contender in sight was Saskatchewan's John George Diefenbaker, Tory gadfly of Parliament...
...much of a life. Alberto lacometti joined the Socialists in his student days and the Fascists kicked him out of Italy in 1926, when he was 24. In France he got a job as head gardener at the lush Moulin Bicherel roadhouse. The sight of the idle rich disporting themselves disgusted him and he quit. France kicked him out and he got a job addressing envelopes in Brussels. The Germans chased him for a year, caught him, gave him to Mussolini, who imprisoned him. In his years as an exile lacometti once had a job as a traveling salesman...
...distributer looked it up, discovered it was only twelve years old, and held by the U.S. Office of Alien Property. Its big royalties now go to the U.S. Government. That would make little difference to its German composers: Tunesmith Hans Otten was dead; Lyricist Gerhard Ebeler had dropped from sight...
Matty likes the prospects. His company will take a 5% cut on every ton of goods that it moves. First haul in sight: $170 million worth of rubber, tin, pepper, tapioca, etc., already stockpiled and ready for shipment as soon as the Dutch lift their economic blockade against the islands...