Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many more sales went unregistered). Almost half of the animals had been exported, the largest number to the U.S., whose big demand for Holstein and other breeding stock has made Canada a leading exporter in the business. The rest went to 18 different countries, most of them in Latin America...
...Columbus, Ohio. As a lieutenant colonel, Heimlich arrived in Berlin in 1945 with the first American units. A former announcer, producer and writer at station WOSU in Columbus, Heimlich became director of RIAS a year ago, pepped it up with special events in addition to regular Voice of America programs. "After Goebbels," he says, "the Germans are fed up with long propaganda tirades over the air. While the Russians continue in this way, we have borrowed heavily from U.S. broadcasting methods to put real zing in our programs...
...record 8,475 fans who jammed Philadelphia Arena last week seemed more keyed up than Mike Mikan. Their hero was 27-year-old ex-Marine Joe Fulks of the Philadelphia Warriors, who was just 19 points behind Mikan for the scoring lead of the Basketball Association of America. Most Arena-goers were rooting for Joe to overtake and pass Mikan, but it was not the night...
Because of such players as George Mikan, pro basketball is gradually taking on a big-league glow. The Basketball Association of America is a twelve-city circuit, playing to enthusiastic crowds from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to St. Louis' Arena. Its stars get paid as much as $17,500 for a 20-week season. Like Mikan, most of the big-name basketball pros come out of topflight collegiate ranks...
Said Charles E. Merrill, the directing partner who runs the firm: "The financial industry has its roots deep in every part of the nation. America's industrial machine is owned at the grass roots* where it should be owned and not in some mythical 'Wall Street...