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...camel-hair bathrobe, Mohammed Mossadegh sat up in bed and received Hjalmar Schacht, chief fixer of Nazi Germany's elastic currency. In Teheran at Mossadegh's summons to take a look at Iran's Scheherazadian finances, Schacht presented Mossy with a plan to stave off bankruptcy. Main feature: increase the amount of money in circulation by 20%. He also pointed out that there was no real hope of balancing the books unless Mossy could reopen the source of nine-tenths of Iran's national income: the refinery at Abadan. Schacht added bluntly: Iranians are "lazy," ought...
...stave off a complete collapse of business, the Reds last week called off the hunt. To the impoverished tigers that remain, junketing Red commissars explained Peking's new "policy of positive help." Now that businessmen have been relieved of their property and savings, it is their patriotic duty, the commissars said, to pitch in and put the People's economy back on its feet. At least until the next tiger hunt...
...Balks. Five companies of Foot Guards, brave in their two-foot bearskins, scarlet tunics and white belts, wheeled in long-lined precision into Whitehall's Horse Guards Parade. Each man was polished until he shone: each had been issued a lump of barley sugar, which was supposed to stave off faintness (in at least three cases, it didn't). Sharp at 11 a.m., as the two-toned chimes of the Horse Guards' clock echoed through Downing Street, a slim, girlish figure in the cockaded tricorn, scarlet tunic and blue serge skirt of the colonel in chief...
...NFME combines this up to date diagnosis with a horse and buggy cure. Medical schools need forty million dollars. To stave off the dreaded day of government intervention, the National Fund has asked corporations to donate the sum in chunks of five million dollars a year...
...stave off the crisis, Italy's winegrowers took a desperate and humiliating step: they offered a prize of 1,000,000 lire for a soft-drink formula that would use wine as a base but not taste like wine. In Rome last week, five of Italy's top authorities on vine culture were gloomily contemplating the 46 formulas that stood as finalists in the contest. Unable to bring themselves to taste the stuff personally, they had farmed out the final judgment to Rome's nightclub patrons. When the winning formula is picked, the winegrowers will bottle...