Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Croat and Serb peasant leaders in exile endorsed the declaration. Czech, Austrian, Rumanian and Polish agrarian groups might soon follow. The U.S. cautiously refrained from publicly supporting the proposed union. Washington, however, was well aware that the union might become a useful link with peasant movements which form the main opposition to Communist domination of Eastern Europe...
Once upon a time (1933), tne U.S. Government sent George Howard Earle III to be its Minister in Austria. He was a sociable man and met everybody. Invited to go hunting on a large Austrian estate, he accepted; he shot bustards there. The great bustard (Otis tarda) is Europe's largest land bird and bears a superficial resemblance to the turkey. It has a phlegmatic temperament and is tardy on the takeoff. Hardly anybody needs a telescopic sight to hit a bustard...
Glycogen. The $5,000 annual award of the Sugar Research Foundation went to Austrian-born Dr. Carl Cori of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...
Revelling in the scope of his international business, Mueller is harassed by people who want him to be a language teacher as well as a bookseller. Not long ago a man came in breathlessly, wanting an Austrian dictionary. "You know there's no such thing," Mueller explains fretfully. "It's German, of course." But annoyance is inevitable, for business is looking up. Books are pouring in now from all over the world except Germany. The French are creating like mad; every day a few copies of Pravda arrive; and Mueller is convinced that Europe is going to be as active...
...Austrian General Wires...