Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less easy to guess was what was cooking between Franco and Portugal's philosophically antidemocratic, rabidly anti-Communist dictator, Dr. Antonio Salazar...
Elsewhere the mildest season reached from coast to coast. Warm in southern California, a perfect day for swimming in the Pacific, unseasonably warm in Kansas City, cloudy in the morning when the city went to church, sunny by the beginning of the tragic midday. In San Antonio "the day was coolish and switched from grey to clear. . . . Out in wooded Bracken-Park, kids were riding the ferris wheel and flying jenny; babies were being held in swings; miniature trains were tooting and whistling as kids were whirled by adoring parents. . . . The main streets were pretty full of wistful-eyed window...
...Midland, Tex. he watched a youngster who had trudged in only a week before go 4,000 feet aloft in a twin-engine bombardier-trainer plane, drop a stick of bombs smack in the center of a 100-ft. circle. He saw San Antonio's student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...
...BEASLEY San Antonio...
...Antonio's WOAI offered several prizes, one for the best collector's letter. The winning letter came from twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...