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...that was more than three years ago. For the past two months Peron has authorized, if he has not actively directed, the most widespread and relentless attack on press freedom that modern Argentina has ever seen. In that time his favorite congressional hatchet man, José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher, has closed 58 newspapers and magazines outright. By taking control of the country's chief newsprint stocks he has gained the power of life or death over virtually all the rest of the press...
...plant turned out household refrigerators and butcher's display cases, pioneered in freezers and air-conditioning equipment. By the end of World War II, Amana's leading line, a $500 home freezer, was being sold in nearly 5,000 retail outlets, backed by national advertising. By last year, the refrigerator plant, still run by Foerstner, employed 350 workers in the peak season (including non-Amanists), and grossed nearly $3,000,000. Such capitalistic prosperity proved too frightening to the 1,500 Amanists...
After the Fact. In Rio de Janeiro, Butcher Manoel Silveira Merinho, arrested for selling his customers second-grade meat at first-grade prices, was released when the station-house cat ate the evidence...
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...crux of the matter. Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...