Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After London's meeting of the UNO Preparatory Commission decided to place UNO's capital in the U.S., the fight narrowed down to San Francisco v. the East. Said Antonio Parra Velasco of Ecuador: "San Francisco is a city of wine, and where there is wine there is civilization, culture and the spirit of enthusiasm which we need." The British preferred to argue this point on its merits. Professor C. K. Webster, the United Kingdom's alternate delegate, said he had found the wines of the Hudson Valley equal to those of California...
...Planes. There were new things to talk about. In San Francisco, a ship that had recently been carrying G.I.s sailed for Argentina with a load of pleasure-bound passengers and commercial cargo. Overtaxed transportation facilities in the U.S. had become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank...
...Antonio M. Arias...
Died. Lieut. General Alexander Mc-Carrell ("Sandy") Patch, 55, defender of Guadalcanal, veteran tactician whose monument was his U.S. Seventh Army's "left hook" from the Riviera north around the Alps, south into Austria; of pneumonia; in San Antonio. A disciplinarian with "a temper like the devil before dawn," Sandy Patch also had deadpan wit and a soldier's knowledge of Kipling. A month before he died, he got the top job of his soldiering lifetime: architect-in-chief -of the postwar U.S. Army...
...Major station allocations: seven each to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles; six to San Francisco; five each to Boston, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, New Orleans, Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Spokane, Schenectady; four each to 42 other cities...