Word: bor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey's Fort Dix went Billy Rose with two big exhibition trucks bor rowed from General Motors' "road show" Parade of Progress. One truck opened out into an 18-by-20-foot stage with a green sequin curtain. The other truck was loaded with Fort Dix's Reception Center band, including hot ex-Broadway syncopators...
Ships and Sheep. Turning the problem over in his mind as he sat at his desk in the Casa Rosada,* Ramên Castillo had only to look out of the window to see one miserable aspect of it: Buenos Aires har bor, once South America's busiest port, almost deserted of shipping, with 18 German and Italian vessels lying at anchor as reminders of the pressure on him. Once an average of 150 ships a day put into Buenos Aires. Now there are about 26 a week. Of 400,000 tons of meat which Britain contracted for six months...
...touched a penny of the $20,000,000 waiting for her in Washington. And $20,000,000, he added, comes to more than two-thirds of her nine months' unfavorable trade balance with the U. S. As the other $10,000,000, the Rich Neigh bor could promise two other favors to the Colossus of the South. One was to keep U.S. wheat out of Brazilian markets, where U. S. dumping in 1938-39 drove Argentine farmers wild. The other was to stand aside on $160,000,000 of beef and corn orders now being placed by the British...
...Navy to insure it. With war in Europe commandeering the bottoms and bullets of all of Ja pan's maritime suppliers and naval rivals ex cept the U. S., Japan has had to orient her policy toward her democratic neighbor across the Pacific, and therefore toward the neigh bor's democratic friends, Britain and France...