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Hard Times. Some of the worried aristocrats in Merida's little country club might well have concluded that this was where they came in. In twelve years after World War I, International Harvester Co. and other U.S. makers of binder twine used war surpluses to force henequen prices down from 20? to 2? a Ib. The millionaires of Mérida, whose fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel...
...grey Ruskin-Gothic Peruvian Embassy. They knew that it was giving asylum to ex-Mayor Juan Luis Gutierrez Granier, in whose municipality, it was said, students were tortured and killed last week. A swell-looking kid of 19 had an old Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even the rifleman's three assistants, armed with staves, looked...
...Mark Tobey's Dormition of the Virgin (loaned by a Seattle minister), which looked like a dirty tangle of white twine lying on a board. The title was no help...
Born in Lincoln, Neb., Berge learned trust-busting from the speeches of his politician-father against the railroads, the axle-grease monopoly, the binder-twine trust. Berge learned to make speeches in fact-packed, coldly logical style while stumping the state with his father. At the University of Nebraska he was a star student, once passed a course on Poet John Milton with a grade of 95 after only a week's study. He got his law degree at the University of Michigan, gave up work in a Manhattan law firm as too dull, and went to the antitrust...
...Wheat. Shipments of 40,000 tons of wheat tided North Africa over its crisis. Expert Feeder Parisius, with a chance to put his production theories into practice, concentrated on the harvest. He got sappers to clear away the mines planted among the wheat. He got oil, binder twine and spare parts for North Africa's farm machinery. To give North Africans an incentive, he urged shipments of U.S. clothing that the workers could buy with money earned in the fields...