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...subsequent repercussions in the U.N. According to the current rules of the game, it will be perfectly all right for Arabs to slaughter Jewish settlers as long as they stay within reasonable bounds and do not constitute a threat to the peace. The concessionaires are quite willing to swap a human life for a tankful...
...hour trip from Salta to Antofagasta. That would wait until next week, when, on the 27th anniversary of its first construction, the new Trans-Andean railway would be officially inaugurated. At the ceremony, no one would cheer louder than the desert miners of northern Chile, who want to swap their copper and nitrates for Argentina's grain, vegetables and beef...
...Department of the Interior's J. A. ("Cap") Krug made the deal with the oil industry. In addition to reducing East Coast gasoline refining in favor of the more critically needed' fuel oils, the deal permits oil companies to pool and swap supplies, thus even up the flow of oil. (Because of the hue & cry over oil exports -actually a mere dribble-the Government also ordered an 18½% cut in them...
...Senator J. William Fulbright, an old Rhodes Scholar. He put two & two together: there was $140 million worth of U.S. war surplus rusting abroad which foreign countries could use if they didn't have to pay for it in U.S. dollars. Fulbright persuaded Congress that the U.S. should swap the surplus for scholarships...
...Gren's telephone deal was almost as involved as the financial matchwork conceived by his late countryman Ivar Kreuger. Since Sweden's tight currency controls will not let Wenner-Gren export more than 2,200 kroner ($600) a month, he had to make the deal through a swap...