Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise another $5,006,000 themselves. To the government of tiny El Salvador (pop. 2,500,000), which had never tried it before, floating an internal loan looked like a precarious business. At its request, the World Bank sent in a bond-marketing expert, balding, energetic Norman M. Tucker...
Many Salvadoreans were convinced that the only way to put over a bond issue was to sell it to the "Twenty Families," the big coffee planters who control the republic's economy. Tucker agreed that the project needed the Twenty Families' strong moral support; but their money, he said, would be better employed in private investment. Instead, he offered a revolutionary plan...
...coins and large bills, a study showed, more than half was being hoarded. Since the Twenty Families hoard U.S. dollars if they hoard any currency, all those colones must be in the mattresses and buried tin cans of other Salvadoreans. "There is a middle class in El Salvador," said Tucker, "and I am prepared to prove...
Forty visiting surgeons and doctors then watched Dr. Lawler transplant the healthy kidney into Mrs. Tucker's body, skillfully fastening vein, artery and ureter. When the clamps were removed, 45 minutes after the donor had died, the kidney in Mrs. Tucker's body took on a healthy pink color...
...week's end Mrs. Tucker seemed to be fairly on the mend. What pleased the doctors most: she was calling for the bedpan at regular intervals...