Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the U.S., it is my duty to protest TIME'S July 5 account to the effect that arms and planes have been sent by the Dominican government to Central America...
...Kansas City, Shirley Osborne, 16, of Danville, Kans., was elected president of the Future Homemakers of America. What kind of home did Shirley want? "I want a big house with tall white pillars, a wide balcony in front and a narrow balcony all around. I want four bedrooms and I expect to have four children, two girls and two boys...
...Booth, ordered a general shuffling of Commissioners. In what has been called a game of musical chairs, he recalled his younger brother, Commissioner Ballington Booth, from his post in the U.S. In protest Ballington and his wife resigned and began to set up a rival organization called Volunteers of America. Evangeline was rushed to New York to talk him out of it, but Ballington was adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers, sister Evangeline found the doors closed against her. She dashed around to the rear...
Celanese Corp. of America, No. 1 maker of the acetate fabric, balked (by advertising it as "Celanese"), and was called on the carpet. Other producers put up as best they could with the growing complaints of buyers...
Free or Strings? The second skirmish was over the word free, which FTC six months ago ruled out of ads if there were any strings at all to the offer. Last fortnight, FTC accused the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild of America and four other book publishers of "false, misleading and deceptive" advertising because they offered "free" books to anyone who subscribed. Also wrong, charged FTC, were such terms as "bonus books'" and ''book dividends...