Word: alien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kaiser engineers also had trouble with Austrian Inventor Fritz Hansgirg, who kicked at changes in his carbo-thermic process. The U.S. took "Herr Doktor" into custody as an enemy alien in December 1941: Permanente barged ahead. To prevent explosions, Kaiser engineers soaked the magnesium dust in oil; to cut costs and save handling they started using petroleum coke (which contains pitch) instead of coke and pitch; to keep the furnaces going they invented new heat-resistant parts...
...teeth of the External Security Law, which the President had signed three weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 18) for the control of enemy alien activity, were immediately bared. The regions of Chile's vital raw materials-copper, nitrate, coal-and her key ports and cities were proclaimed emergency zones. The interests of the Axis Governments were taken over by Spain. Steps were taken to arrange Axis diplomats' departure through Argentina...
...talking to natives. Smith's records are accompanied by booklets so that record-listeners see what they hear. In the field, special service officers hold language lessons for groups of from 10 to 20 men, who hear each set of records a half-dozen times and repeat the alien phrases aloud...
...areas of the jungle. Suspicious minds thought they might be preparing airfields for an attack on the Panama Canal. The outbreak of World War II found some 20,000 Japanese scattered over some 2,700 square miles of the Amazon basin. In the course of the first roundups of alien enemies, thousands were taken to internment camps, but many more remained at large...
...thing even E tu Destino could not explain-the sense of loss that brooded above Mount Allegro, the feeling of being strange and alien in a strangely alien land. At school the second generation were told that if they were born here they were American, but "then one day one of your new teachers looked at you brightly and said you were Italian because your last name was Amoroso and that too was puzzling." You talked it over with your father but he wasn't very helpful. "Your children will be Americani, but you, my son, are half...