Uruguay Eyes US Relations Amid Steel Prices and Goodwill Tours
Speculators in Uruguay report US policy favors Brazil and Argentina, inflating steel prices to as high as 140 a ton for material normally 53. North American goodwill missions strain finances, while officials note the need for fair pricing and timely deliveries. A German consortium faces a June contract issue over a river power plant project near Montevideo.
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Brazil
Argentina
United States
Washington
Uruguay
Alfredo Baldomir
Davidson
Dawson
Congress
Germany
River Negro
Montevideo
Uruguay Faces Economic Ruin Amid Steel Shortage
Montevideo reports Uruguay on the brink of economic collapse as lack of steel blocks construction. The nation relies on hides wool seeds and US purchases, with unemployment rising and a 40 million dollar balance. authorities fear four to five thousand families will be left without support if steel does not arrive.
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Fhed S. Ferguson
NEA
Montevideo
Uruguay
United States
Independence Square
Artigas
United ‘States
United’ “Press
Uruguay Seeks American Help to Build Power Plant
The Montevideo question centers on securing machinery for a power plant as Germany cannot supply. Uruguay faces no fuel supply and needs water power. If Americans take over, wartime contract disputes with Germany could linger. The excerpt also notes education funding needing adjustments and a 1947 appropriation of $9,430,630 versus $2,166,415 planned for 1943.
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el Siglo
Berlin
Moscow
Chile
Popular Front
Congress
Cousino Park
Cecil Lyon
Avenido Ejercito
Germany
Plaza Baines
Claude G. Bowers
Jeronimo Mendez
Aguirre Cerda
International
Telephone ,and Telegraph
Share
Anaconda Copper
Braden Kennecott
Guegenheim
Pan American Airlines
Grace Line
Singer
American
Carabineros
Montevideo
Uruguay
Plan To Close Indian Schools Including Pierre
President Roosevelt outlined to Congress a plan to cut Indian education costs by 330000 by closing five boarding schools and reorganizing the program. Nonreservation schools to be closed include Pierre South Dakota Fort Wingate New Mexico Euchee Eufaula and Wheelock Oklahoma. Adjustments aim to protect access for Indian children already enrolled.
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Congress
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Pierre
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Eufaula
Wheelock
Oklahoma
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