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Bank have gone to Brazil-$1.3 billion worth. The U.S. has trained more than 1,000 doctors, nurses and technicians, has helped to eradicate malaria, and to build Brazil's greatest steel plant. ¶In the private field, the U.S. buys 58% of Brazil's coffee exports, has invested more than $1.3 billion to employ 94,000 Brazilians, do $427 million worth of local business with Brazilian suppliers, pay $77 million in taxes. U.S. capital is helping Brazil develop by making trucks, tires, electricity and electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, business machines. ¶In the defense field...
Benson was wrong on both counts. Corn production is up by 600 million bu., and farmers piled on so much of everything else that net feed production is up 5%. On corn alone, Benson faces having to buy up to $672 million worth of this year's corn, on top of an estimated $1.8 billion worth of previous years' corn.* Meanwhile, storage, transportation and interest on earlier corn surpluses are costing $1,000,000 a day, more than twice the cost of maintaining the U.S. courts and Congress. Total added outlay for this year's corn charged...
Though he is one of the world's richest men (reputed worth: $1 billion), Jean Paul Getty, 66, lives like a man who does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including "35? for ice cream." He has homes in California and Italy, but rarely uses them, prefers instead to run his vast Middle Eastern oil interests (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) from the cheapest two-room suites in Paris' George V and London's Ritz Hotel...
...Instinct." That did not stop Willy. After the Berlin blockade, he bought the old Silesian trading firm, Otto R. Krause, then proceeded (with Allied permission) to ship $16 million worth of steel to Grermany's Communist zone. His profit: $1,000,000. With the money he bought a steel mill, a rolling mill, a machine shop. During the Korean war, Schlieker shipped millions of tons of U.S. coal to Germany, hundreds of thousands of tons of German steel back to the States at handsome profits. When the war was over, he unloaded 50,000 tons of top-priced steel...
Much Ado About Nothing. Delightful subplotters John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton make the play's dull main plot well worth sitting through...