Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airlines' installment-plan vacation (10% down, up to 20 months to pay) is bringing in new customers every day. Some travel managers object on the ground that it requires more paperwork and hurts future business. Said one Chicago agent: "If you buy a car by installments, you've got something to look at and use. Once you've taken a vacation, you've got nothing left but a memory." But Pan American, by pushing its installment plan, boosted sales $4,200,000 last year, expects that it will top $7,000,000 (6% of all business...
...Grey Blur. As Author Sukhanov describes the summer of 1917, it often seems that the de facto government of Russia was the crowd in the streets ("Everyone was demonstrating who wasn't too lazy!"). The crowd was fickle. When Lenin was tagged as a paid German agent by the opposition press, he took to the underground. Stalin, at the time, left only "the impression of a grey blur" on Sukhanov, "looming up now and then dimly and not leaving any trace...
...Republicans could win the [1952] election only with Eisenhower was not surprising; the appeal of a war hero won more than one election in this country. The permanence of the Eisenhower popularity is, however, more significant. [Eisenhower's] popularity is rooted in the fact that he is the agent of the acceptance by Republicanism of the major policies of the Rooseveltian Revolution of the past two decades. In foreign affairs, that meant acceptance of the concept of our nation's responsibility for the health of the community of free nations. In domestic politics, the revolution meant a break...
...injuring a woman with the flying glass. That was only the beginning: the note warned that a second bomb was set to go off before noon the next day. In the meantime, Frank was to pay out $50,000. From 6:30 to 7 that Friday evening, an agent was to stand outside the downtown Imperial Hotel with a carnation in his lapel, and the money in small bills packed in a light-colored suitcase. At 7 he was to enter a certain phone booth and wait. Frank showed the note to the police. At 7:08 p.m. a police...
Murder! cried the Red Chinese government. "Murder deliberately engineered by secret-agent organizations of the U.S. and Chiang Kai-shek!" Retorted the U.S. State Department: "Preposterous." The Chinese Communists had chartered an Air-India plane (fee $20,000) to take part of their delegation to the Bandung Conference in Indonesia. The four-engined Constellation flew in to Hong Kong from Bangkok on a regular flight, disembarked its passengers, and refueled. During the 80 minutes it stood on the airfield, it was ringed with security guards. Then the charter passengers were whisked in past customs directly to the plane. Chief among...