Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coast at Asbury Park, Mrs. Maria Monez Strohmeier ("Mrs. Philadelphia"), a 21-year-old blonde with green eyes, was crowned "Mrs. America." This entitled her to a fur coat, furniture, a dishwasher, laundry machine, luggage, and diaper service for any future children. Mrs. America was more nearly standard size...
Emilio Razzore had made his circus his life. Like his father and grandfather, who started the circus in Rio 112 years ago, he had toured the dusty towns and cities of South America and the Caribbean, with his five clowns, his dancing bears, and the chimpanzees that rode bicycles. He had tigers and monkeys, and trained dogs. Best of all, he had two beautiful acrobats: his daughter Dolinda and his niece Guillermina...
...civil servant, two years as Under Secretary for External Affairs, Pearson was getting into politics. He took up his new cabinet post with a sense of mission. In his view, the chief hope of easing the continuing international tension lies in an Atlantic defensive union linking North America with Europe's Western Union. In Washington, U.S. and Canadian diplomats were already working on the problem. Pearson was sure that he had something to contribute...
...polio virus creeps along the nerves, on its way to destroying the nerve cells. Last week, for the first time, the virus was caught in the act. Drs. Eduard De Rober-tis and Francis Otto Schmidt of M.I.T. showed a Toronto convention of the Electron Microscope Society of America some remarkable pictures of the polio virus marching in orderly files along a nerve fiber...
Scouts had picked Chicago's big Civic Opera House as "the place to open in America." While they waited for the company to arrive from Montreal, Chicago's socialites and Franco-American clubs prepared a Bourbonic welcome. There would be a huge party backstage in the famous Gold Key room on opening night. And the French Embassy was sending a diplomat to make it official...