Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier in the week another political sirocco had blown through the Capitol. Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart read to his Senate colleagues excerpts from "Voice of America" broadcasts prepared for the State Department by the National Broadcasting Co. and beamed to Latin America last winter...
...priest. To please her, when he was 18, he went off to Spain and the University of Salamanca. But Spain made him restless-he steeped himself in the wild history of the Spanish conquistadors* -and after a year and a half he went to Cherbourg, and slipped off to America in the steerage of a liner...
...first job was running a pushcart. Then he signed on as a coal passer on the steamship Dochra and made a trip to South America. After that, he was on his own. He worked in the fire rooms of Hudson River night boats. He "carried the hod" during construction of the Woolworth Building and many another Manhattan building, and made $19.25 a week...
...reaching an agreement . . ." Britain's sober Economist pointed a grimmer lesson: "If it [the crisis] is allowed to develop unchecked, the Americans will raise their arms embargo in order to supply the Jews with weapons; and if Britain continues to fulfill its contracts to the Arabs . . . Britain and America will in effect be fighting each other by proxy...
...years, with driving energy, grey, balding Dr. Fanstone, missionary for the Evangelical Union of South America, has been tending the ills of the people of the great Brazilian heartland state of Goiaz. Today, his gleaming, 130-bed hospital is one of the show places of the booming frontier capital of Anapolis, 875 miles northwest of Rio. But 58-year-old Dr. Jim can remember when he did appendectomies in his own kitchen...