Word: arco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news hit, the telephone operators in Arco's one-room exchange above the Dee Hotel plugged in every line in Butte County, ringing telephones all up & down the Big Lost River Valley. A man from Pocatello, who had just been offered a one-story building for $10,000, walked across the street to look at another site. When he got back, he found the price had jumped to $17,500. Soon, jalopies were pounding into town and Arco's streets were jammed with jubilant wheat farmers and ranchers, shouting, cheering and recklessly counting their future wealth...
...Eisenhower's Own Story of the War (Arco; paperbound, $1; cloth, $2.50). Also available for $1 from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington...
...France. First the Allies tried intervention to overthrow the Bolshevik regime. At the Genoa Conference of 1922 Russia was offered money and aid only if capitalism were restored. Russia was excluded from Locarno in 1925. Things got so bad by 1927 that London police raided the offices of Arco Ltd., the Soviet Trading Company, finding nothing, and Russia and Great Britain finally broke off all diplomatic relations...