Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Topic A. A main topic of all stops will be the common-market arrangement that is gradually taking form throughout the area. The U.S.'s aid experts will inspect the fruits of past aid programs and discuss needs for new ones. Examples: the Export-Import Bank is considering a loan of $500,000 to the Honduran Development Bank, and the U.S. International Cooperation Administration may lend $1,700,000 for school construction in Panama. El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala will want to talk about the troublesome world surplus of coffee...
...this centennial year, pilgrims are expected to spend more than $190 million on pious objects. Even the smallest shop near the shrine is estimated to be worth almost $200,000 to its owner. Lourdes has now even put hinges on its street signs to reroute traffic through a different area of town every two weeks so as to give each merchant an equal crack at the pilgrims...
Nine Brothers. The amateur editor had picked a formidable foe. Tied to the state organization of Senator Harry Byrd, the Kellam machine was formed by nine brothers, headed by Sidney Kellam, longtime county treasurer, and Floyd Kellam, circuit judge in the area, with the power to appoint various commissions...
...Shoot proved to be a hamlet in the middle of a swampy, oil-rich wooded area known as the "Big Thicket." Its 194 inhabitants claim that "if you stand around long enough, you'll get cut; if you try to run, you'll get shot." The city-slicker writers found Roy a quiet, soft-spoken schoolteacher and ex-Army lieutenant living in a modern cottage on the Harris farm. Roy told them he was part Indian (Cherokee) and "I want to prove that I am a fighter and not a myth." They all dutifully wrote that down...
...floor, traders surged around trading posts, rushed madly from booth to booth waving order slips and shouting at the top of their lungs. The heavy trading was touched off by reports of a rich drill hole in a copper vein discovered more than a fortnight ago in the Mattagami area of Quebec by New Hosco Mines Ltd., a smalltime mining outfit. Shares of New Hosco, a longtime penny stock that sold for 17? three weeks ago, soared as high as $7.25-and took other stocks with it. At week's end. as assayers reported that a second drilling...