Reminiscences of Ovidio Giménez, 1972

Biographical Note

Economist, businessman

Scope and Contents

Student political activity: early service in provincial governments; 1938 with major wheat exporting company partly owned by major conglomerate Bunge y Born: long career in sales, management of wheat and flour products; effects of inflation, price controls, relationship of industry to government and labor; prize-winning book on grain industry in Argentina; establishment of Ovidio Gimenez Foundation; annual awards to young Latin American scholars; retirement, public service

Subjects

• Argentina--Commerce.
• Argentina--Economic conditions--1918-
• Argentine literature.
• Businessmen--Argentina--Interviews.
• Giménez, Ovidio, 1909---Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Romero, Luis Alberto, interviewer.
• Students--Political activity--Argentina.