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...invest in a likely stock, experts from the Department of State and the Export-Import Bank wrangled over a proposed Argentine loan last week. State recommended a credit of $125 million, so that Argentina could fund her commercial debts and begin buying badly needed U.S. farm machinery. The Ex-Im negotiators, not entirely convinced that Argentina could handle and pay back a loan of that size, argued that $65 million would be enough to restore Argentine credit. For the moment no decision was reached; the dickering continued. But it was a good bet that before Argentine Treasury Minister Ramon Cereijo...
...tattered cloth shopping bags. The loudspeaker squawked again: "Paul Fehr. F-e-h-r." No one moved. A man's trembling voice spoke from the rear: "1st . . . nicht . . . mitgekommen [didn't come along]." As more names were read off, nearly half were "nicht mitgekommen" or "noch im Lager [still in camp...
...trouble and lending his kind, mild counsel to anyone who needed it. "A woman 'ud call about 'er rent," Griffiths recalls. "She 'adn't any money, see? 'Pull up ter th' fire, mother,' the Major 'ud say (they still call 'im Major down Limehouse way). 'Make a pot of tea, Griff, and get a piece of cake. Now you stop crying, mother, and we'll soon get things settled.' " Such is Limehouse's loyalty to Clement Attlee that even today the patrons of the Castle pub along...
Thousands of Berliners this week were dialing "23" on their telephones. What they got was not the time, the weather or Long Distance, but a three-minute report of the latest news from radio station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). Of the 20,000-30,000 daily calls, nearly half come from residents of Berlin's Soviet sector, who apparently want their telephoned news uncluttered by the party line...
Gold Veins. Belowstairs, Albert, the 'prentice footman, is sick with love for-Housemaid Edie, who is herself pining for First Footman Charley Raunce. "I love 'im, I love 'im," she cries to Housemaid Kate (who is obsessed by the mere idea of being in love). "I could open the veins of my right arm for that man." But Footman Charley is momentarily too busy to take Edie seriously. He is hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom, waiting for the brief coma between life and death when he can safely order young Albert...