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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This worked out to an average ground speed of 607.2 miles an hour-23 miles an hour faster than the transcontinental record set three years ago by an F-80 jet fighter...
...year ago the U.S. Congress volleyed and thundered for five months over EGA. Last week it barely managed a show of interest in ECA's $5½ billion bill for the next 15 months. Summoned to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Dean Acheson waited for ten minutes before Chairman Tom Connally showed up, then waited ten minutes more for enough other committeemen to make a quorum. Finally Connally snapped at an attendant: "Go out and see if you can find any more Senators wandering around, and bring them...
...thriller was good for a one-day splash on U.S. front pages. Repatriated Americans on the Gripsholm had brought back most of the story to the U.S. in 1943, it had been published at least three times in the Japanese press since the war, and nine months ago the U.S. magazine Plain Talk carried it in full...
...Woman on the Hill. A few months ago, the Tory government of Prime Minister Sir Basil Brooke had little reason to count on such a triumph. Last December, when Eire passed the Republic of Ireland Act, which claimed jurisdiction over the Northern counties, Sir Basil saw a chance to bolster his own position by calling a general election. In the ordinary course of events, Northern Ireland would not have had a general election until next year. By rushing the election through on the issue of partition, Northern Ireland's position as a part of the United Kingdom would...
...voice was that of Haitian Colonel Astrel Roland, accused by the Haitian government a fortnight ago of heading a Dominican-backed plot against the regime. The coffee-colored colonel denied that there had been any conspiracy. He promised to return to Haiti. He also promised to restore the mulatto rule which Estimé's blacks had supplanted...