Word: americana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title of last night's lecture was "Pax Americana...
Recalling the world's two great periods, of peace under the Roman and British Empires an the "Pax Romana" and the "Pax Brittanica," Senator Ralph E. Flanders last night called for a "Pax Americana" in the third and final Godkin Lecture...
Flanders will open discussion of "The American Century" with "International Strength" as his topic. Tomorrow night he will speak on "External Policy" and Thursday on "Pax Americana...
Although their lands were soon surrounded by coffee plantations, the Americans stuck to such familiar crops as cotton and melancia americana (watermelon). Hard work brought prosperity. Over the years the settlers intermarried with Brazilians and gave up their U.S. citizenship...
Last week Americana (the "villa" was officially dropped in the 19303), now a snug and thriving little (pop. 10,000) industrial town, opened a new $6,500,000 hydroelectric plant to power its mills, synthetic fertilizer factories, distilleries and farm-machinery assembly plant. Dr. Jones, who is also a city councilman, was one of those on hand to greet Sao Paulo's beefy, ambitious Governor Adhemar de Barros and the planeload of federal officials who flew in for the inauguration of the power plant...