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...millions still bought half their food overseas. Yet austerity, the hated catchword of seven lean years (1945-52), is all but disappearing. Britons once again are eating roasts (and carrots) for Sunday dinner. Tea was de-rationed last October; candy, eggs and cream followed this summer. Sugar will be freed next month, and after Aug. 29, bakers will be able to sell white bread for the first time since...
...Detroit and New York, business has picked up. One reason was that Detroit's car makers sent representatives around the country, urging dealers to get rid of their huge stocks at any cost. Those who took the advice often took heavy losses, but they cleared out old cars, freed tied-up cash, and put their dealerships on a sound basis. To dramatize the campaign, the Metropolitan Chevrolet Dealers of Detroit organized a "Funeral Parade" of jalopies, towed 35 old cars through the streets and burned them...
Business Is Business. In Mons, Belgium, arrested for selling his wife Anna, his three children, his household furnishings and his house to Jiacomo Martina for 24,000 francs ($480), Emilio Rondoti was freed by the local judge, but ordered to pay court costs...
...regent for her absent father, Emperor Dom Pedro II. In ten days, after she had reformed the cabinet, she pushed the emancipation bill through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Commoners and courtiers joined in celebration, but the princess' ousted prime minister sardonically predicted: "She has freed a people, but she has lost a throne...
Isabel's humanitarian act, bitterly opposed by conservative coffee and sugar planters, soon brought on a disastrous economic crisis. Crops rotted in the fields as freed slaves abandoned the fazendas. Within a year the crowded cities faced famine, and the army deposed the royal family. Princess Isabel died at her husband's chateau in France...