Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immigration officials went about their work ostentatiously: in the large, bustling detail which boarded the Batory at Pier 88 on Manhattan's North River were 30 armed border patrolmen rushed from the Canadian border. With a smug smile, the Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, accepted an order to stay aboard and keep his crew there until the Batory departed. Four of his crew were taken ashore briefly and questioned...
...want to trade with The Netherlands because the Dutch can pay them only guilders, not now convertible to dollars. Like everyone else in Europe, the Belgians want dollars to buy in the U.S. So the Dutch are building their own railway equipment industry just across the Belgian border. They are using Marshall Plan dollars to duplicate a Belgian industry which ought to have a Dutch market...
...owns a big piece of Canada. According to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, U.S. citizens have invested more than $5 billion north of the border. Better than half of that amount-an estimated $2.7 billion-is in the U.S.-controlled companies, subsidiaries and branches that make up 37% of the investment in Canadian industry...
...capital's factories and utilities stopped work. The government declared a state of siege (the seventh in two years), called all able-bodied men from 19 to 50 to the colors. An attempt by M.N.R. exiles to seize and paralyze the rail center of Villazon, near the Argentine border, was nipped...
...range in age from 19 to 26, have been studying in DP camps. Most of them had fled their countries when the Communists took over, the three Czechs all crossing the border illegally after the coup last spring...