Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to power, could bring the world unity and peace. For that, at least, loudmouthed Dictator Tito deserved the West's gratitude. As one American observer in Europe put it last week: "The time is surely come when the West should stop thinking of communism as a block which might splinter but can never crack...
...pact in Washington, Portugal's dictator-and Spain's good neighbor- Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar declared that Spain's exclusion from the pact was a "geographical and strategical weakness" in the "Western front." *In the Security Council, Russia last week used her 30th veto to block the admission of Korea to U.N. membership...
...made as little as 55? and as much as $26,000 in a haul. Having widened his field, he was in New Hampshire with only Vermont to go when he decided to pass up Vermont: "I did not like the topography," he said, "It's too easy to block...
...Cover) In the center of Mexico City squats a vast, magnificently ugly edifice of white marble, imported block by block from Italy. Officially it is the Palace of Fine Arts, but mexicanos call it the elefante blanco and point out, with mingled pride and disdain, that the ponderous thing is slowly sinking, of its own weight, into the city's soft subsoil...
...Bank Rate March 15 Rate in the U.S. Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas) 135 400 France (francs) 214 370 Italy (lire) 575 650 Netherland (guilders) 2.6 4 Spain (pesetas) 10.5 31 Switzerland (francs) 4.28 3.98 Countries In the Sterling Block England (pound) $4.03 1/2 $3.35 Ireland (pound) 4.05 3.60 Egypt (pound) 4.15 2.80 S. Africa (pound) 4.03 1/2 3.25 India (rupee...