Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Domingo Marimón is a man of means. He runs an undertaking business, smokes big cigars, campaigns against Perón, and races automobiles. In Buenos Aires one midnight last month, Domingo stepped on the starter of his 1939 Chevrolet and waited for the Gran Premio de la America del Sur to begin. So did 137 other drivers * in their Fords, Chevies and a sprinkling of Plymouths, Nashes and Buicks. At the signal, they roared off into the night...
...took the sports writers, showed them his team in action, and had them printing such items as greatest young coach in America" and "best in New England since Leahy...
...Italien aliens named Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electrocuted for this crime, following one of the longest and most sensational cases in the history of American criminal law. The Sacco-Vanzetti ease aroused violent popular feeling all over the world. For years the liberal and radical elements of America and Europe were engaged in a roaring battle of words with the judiciary and administration of this Commonwealth...
...character called "the Sword," who was preparing to set fire to military installations with inflammable spray. It was evident that the Sword was in the pay of some agency hostile to the United States, but the script never get beyond mysterious references to "they," and a rendezvous in South America...
...little confusing. Six weeks ago, the Department of Justice had asked the courts to break up the Aluminum Co. of America. Last week another federal agency, the War Assets Administration, approved a deal to make Alcoa bigger. It sold to Alcoa, for $5,000,000, the Government's $19 million aluminum reduction plant at Massena...