Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About the time Communist Karl Marx finished writing Das Kapital, Capitalist Charles Pratt began selling "Pratt's Astral Oil." A high-grade lamp fuel, refined in Brooklyn from Pennsylvania petroleum, it became world-famed. Until Edison made his improvement, no one could read the Communist Manifesto, or anything else...
One Indian leader after another entered the pink and white viceregal palace in New Delhi. Inside, he was whisked to the second floor by an elevator, and ushered across an acre of anteroom to a small council chamber furnished simply, except for one gold brocade settee. There, hour after hour...
Empty Glory. Lord Alexander would be a "Governor" of Canada in name only. The job had glory but no authority. Socially, he would link Canada to the Mother Country, but politically he would be a nonentity. He would have to present himself, smiling, at all sorts of functions. He would...
But despite these comforts and conveniences, UNO-in-The Bronx lacked a certain cloistered air ordinarily associated with world conferences, whether held in field headquarters or marble halls. The 42-acre Hunter College campus was pleasant and green, but its turreted granite buildings were a little too obviously intended for...
Last week, with Hendy's strike settled, McCone took his first vacation in about six years. Friends doubted if he could stop working. When they visited him at his five-acre estate in San Marino, they found that, sure enough, he was supervising construction of a new swimming pool...