Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear a two-hour lecture. Last November, prisoners were told how Henry Wallace had been defrauded of the U.S. presidency by vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers for shipment to America; in return the U.S. shipped low-grade corn meal to Japan. They discussed the Atlantic pact as "The Prelude to World...
...lived some 3,000 years ago. The Greeks and Romans had it, but most of Europe forgot its umbrella during the Middle Ages. In the 16th Century some unnamed Italian invented it again. Two centuries later, however, umbrellas were being greeted with amazement in England and Scotland. North America's first umbrella appeared on the streets of Baltimore in 1772. According to one account, "Pedestrians stood transfixed, women were frightened, horses ran away, and naughty children threw stones. Finally, the town watch was called out to quiet the disturbance...
...International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has lent $125,100,000 to Latin American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), took another step last week to help carry out President Truman's Point Four development program in South America. The bank announced that a team of nine experts, headed by ex-Brain Truster Lauchlin Currie, would spend three months studying ways to increase Colombia's wealth...
...riders of the jeep were quick to approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting animal would carry the proud red-grey-and-gold colors of La Punta...
...America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). From London. "Does the Socialist State Tend to Destroy Individual Initiative...