Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wintry January afternoon in 1916, the Metropolitan Opera's Enrico Caruso, Frances Alda, Antonio Scotti and Andres de Segurola bundled into a train for one of their weekly performances in Philadelphia. For the top performers in the Met's golden age it was a routine trip, but one they always made the most of. This time, the party sipped champagne...
...CHESF's engineers, as to most Brazilians, Paulo Afonso's progress is a matter of national pride. Impatient at the delay in getting heavy earth-moving equipment over back roads, CHESF's shirtsleeved, roly-poly President Jose Antonio Alves de Souza told his men to go ahead without it. As his barefooted laborers struggled last week to haul rude, four-handled wooden trays of rock from the darn excavations, Alves de Souza said: "Sure, we've got too many men here now. But we can't just sit and wait for the machinery to come...
...Lull and his aides lobbied to swing the N.M.A. into line with the A.M.A. in opposition to socialized medicine. But they could not budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...
...prove his point, Dobbs bought an airport restaurant back home in Memphis. Before long, his reputation for tasty, packaged plane meals enabled him to branch out to airports in 21 other cities, begin catering to 16 U.S. airlines. In San Antonio this week, he opens his newest airport restaurant, serving such Dobbs delicacies as rainbow trout cooked in almond sauce, and baked potatoes kept hot in metal foil. This year Jimmy Dobbs, 55, expects his airport restaurant gross to exceed...
...MORRIS San Antonio...