Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of world trade and ECA to TIME Inc. is obvious: TLI is founded on the belief that the exchange of news and goods between America and the rest of the world is for the benefit of all concerned, and (exemplifying that point) the overseas editions of TIME and LIFE International carry advertising sold separately from TIME Inc.'s U.S. edition...
...order. If water pistols were flourished too carelessly, they were seized. Electric canes were appropriated on sight. Fat and fiftyish, the average delegate spent his time forlornly window-shopping with his wife, listening to assorted oratory. He perked up enough to review the lissome candidates for "Miss Majorette of America for 1948," voted Illinois' Mary Jean Peterson fairest of them all. But the big, 5½-hour parade was marred by a drenching rain...
Both flyers had been regular listeners to the "Voice of America" broadcasts. Said Barsov: "I believe everyone within range who has a radio listens to the broadcasts . . . The Russian people are really interested in life in the United States and they know the Soviet press and radio are not giving the true picture...
...stressed the Republican's support from "the middle class, the brains and the power" of the country and predicted that only he could "unite the country to the sacrifices needed to meet the threat of Communism." Leach pointed to Dewey's ability "to work with a team," and suggested America "work for more and better Marshall plans and greater military might...
...College de France, Bataillon devotes most of his time to private study in a method similar to that of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. 'Professor of the Languages and Literatures of the Iberian Peninsula and of Latin America," he gives frequent lectures in Paris...