Word: au
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other such towns were already being planned, native industries had been developed, unemployment was down 25%. As tourist bait, the government had started building broad avenues and pavilions for next year's International Exposition at Port-au-Prince, and a new law required businessmen in the. capital's downtown district to install glass show windows and hang out electric signs...
...from through with Haiti, however. Last week it dispatched a 12-man survey mission to Port-au-Prince. Assignment: to advise the Haitian government on all the island's problems, including illiteracy...
...night Elsa threw a slumming party in Antibes (Darryl Zanuck and Rita were along), ordered dinner at the popular bistro Félix au Port. The table was on the sidewalk, and almost at once a crowd gathered. When it turned out that they were not autograph hunters but merely folk grumbling at the sight of a lavish dinner, the party moved inside...
After that, it was anybody's fight. Roger Lemelin, author of Au Pied de la Pente Douce, a story about Quebec City, took the middle way. Obviously, he argued, French Canadians have the intellectual characteristics of their race, but it is natural that they should write about their North American surroundings...
Last week, there were fewer ill-clad and unshod in Port-au-Prince, the capital. Peasants walked barefoot down the mountains with shoes in their hands, grumblingly put them on at the city gates. Said one young Haitian: "What an idea, dressing up every day as if it were a holiday! My shoes have been in good condition for five years, but if I have to put them on all the time, I'll wear them...