Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fomento even hired expert U.S. economists to sit down with prospects, show them how high returns might run. It offered them ready-built plants at low rent, loans from the Fomento bank, cheap power from the efficient Water Resources Board, accurate statistics. Nor did Fomento wait for investors to come. Ted Moscoso can often be seen in Fomento's plush offices in the new Tishman Building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, striding down a corridor on his way for some "belly-to-belly selling" of a businessman interested in setting up a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico...
When Alba Guidotti added three strokes of the bell to her ringing of the Angelus in her uncle's church, her sweetheart, Rinaldo. knew that she would slip out that night and wait for him in the vineyard. They were very happy, but when at last it came time to talk of marriage, Alba's father said no-again and again. He was just about to give his consent, he says now, when Rinaldo was drafted into Italy's World War II army and sent to Greece...
GERMAN VOLKSWAGENS are in such demand (a six-month wait in some U.S. cities) that U.S. dealers have started to buy used cars in West Germany for premium prices, ship them to U.S., sell them for new-model price (about...
Artistic Disorder. While industry leaders set the fashions in products, fashions in women's grooming are set by a different, more remote breed. U.S. women wait anxiously on the decrees of such men as Antoine, aging (seventyish), wavy-haired dean of U.S. hair stylists, who has turned more heads than a nation of Casanovas. From his headquarters in Paris, Antoine lays down the law for the 48 Antoine salons that are part of Seligman & Latz, the nation's largest beauty chain (292 salons). He is responsible for the page boy, the pompadour, the Italian cut, the tousle...
...added, after a moment's gloomy thought, "just wait until Wednesday night, when they really get used to the place." She groaned...