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...earth, stowing away an average of 235 Ibs. of meat a year, mostly beef. (U.S. average: 130 Ibs., about half of it beef.) Despite heavy home consumption, Argentina used to have lots of beef for export. Then Juan Perón & Co. began tinkering with the national economy. A soak-the-farmers policy cut heavily into grain and cattle production. Last year, despite severely curtailed beef exports, Buenos Aires got its first taste of a meat shortage, with meatless days in restaurants and queues outside butcher shops. Since then, Perón has given cattlemen a somewhat better break...
...military mission with rocks and cabbages. Mossadegh's problem was how to make sure that the Iranian army, which is four weeks behind in its pay, will stay loyal to the government. Desperately, he set up teams of free-lance tax gatherers with orders to soak Iran's wealthy landlords and traders for some of the taxes they have never bothered to pay. The tax collectors will get a flat 1% of whatever they bring in. But the biggest source of revenue-the Abadan oil refinery-remained untapped. Without its British managers and technicians, the Iranians simply cannot...
...convention time approaches, a sizable segment of TIME'S normal New York City operations will also be transplanted to Chicago. TIME'S top editors and a number of writers and researchers will be on hand to soak up the convention atmosphere, forming direct impressions of its mood, scene, movement and sound...
...rise of the millionaires revived sentiment for an income tax. It was strictly and frankly a soak-the-rich measure. In 1893, a St. Louis editor urged William Jennings Bryan to lead a crusade for a graded tax of 5% or 10% on incomes over $10,000. "There is nothing those Eastern plutocrats dread so much as that...
...Full Nether Lip. Nelly was born, said the journals of the age, in a Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...