Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mouth of the Amazon, the trekkers were treated to pep talks on the romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
They met in a hall packed with Bridges men. The longshoremen hooted at the red-faced, white-haired capitalist and shipowner. Lapham put his feet apart and shouted back. Bridges' longshoremen ended up by applauding him for his frankness and sportsmanship. That day Roger Lapham walked onto the political stage...
Overhead was the roar of planes. But all eyes, mostly red from lack of sleep, were focused on a glistening B-29 Super-fort, Dave's Dream,* which stood apart at the south side of the strip...
Five thousand miles apart, two men speaking different languages were last week discussing "free voting." Said one: "I will arrest any man who is against us . . . on election day. . . ." Said the other: "Let a handful vote this year and two handfuls will vote next year. You will be justified in going to any extreme on election day . . . to keep them from voting...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Authors Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend) and Dorothy Parker pick apart Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...