Word: stated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end Gonzalez made devaluation law by decree. Instead of the eight old dollar-peso exchange rates, Chile got just one, pegged, after talks with the International Monetary Fund, at about 65 to the dollar. At the same time, food and drug products and bus fares got state subsidies, while income taxes were hiked and new taxes levied on horse-race betting, cigarettes, soft drinks and automobiles. And for the first time, tax-dodgers were made liable to imprisonment...
...history-sailed from New York to take up her post in Copenhagen, Denmark. With her went Johanna, 15, Hans, 11, and Husband John, who was proud not only of his wife's big new job, but of his own small triumph over bureaucracy. At first the State Department, which pays the overseas passage of Ambassadors' wives, ruled that since there had never before been any dealings with an Ambassador's husband, he would have to pay his own way. Anderson kept demanding his rights until Washington finally came through with his fare...
Arkansas' Governor Sidney McMath, 37, arrived in Manhattan to confer a special honor of his state, the title "Arkansas Traveler," on a Center Point, Ark. girl: department store Bigwig Dorothy Shaver, president of Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor...
...Symphony Orchestra" is always quickly and quietly filled. As white-haired Manager George E. Judd (34 years with the Boston) puts it: "We set our sights on what we want to do and then find a way to pay for it. If there are any deficits, we like to state them not in terms of dollars, but in terms of concerts not given. And we try not to have that kind of deficit...
Withered Roses. When the stone lids of the sarcophagi were slid off and the pinewood caskets opened, the assembled scientists made an astonishing discovery: 24 of the bodies were completely mummified and in an excellent state of preservation; other bodies, although skeletons, were still held together by their ligaments. How were the bodies preserved? The experts disagreed. Some attributed the mummification to the climate, others to some unknown process of embalming, probably of Moorish or perhaps even Egyptian origin. The nuns had a simpler explanation. Said Sister Blanca: "They were all saints. Their bodies could not decay...