Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swung in over Shansi's western border we looked down on an expanse of craggy peaks with terraces stepped up the sides and brown parched river valleys. Taiyuan's danger could be seen with the naked eye. The walls of the square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds...
Last fortnight, after an unidentified plane buzzed his mosquito-bitten border towns, the dictator ordered his armed AT6 trainers to patrol the Costa Rican border, to shoot down intruders on sight. "I will permit no more violations of the national territory," he thundered. Just in case the Legion should make Honduras the road to Nicaragua, Tacho deployed 500 National Guardsmen along his northern frontier, sent 200 right into Honduras to help his friend Carias...
...enough to drive a farmer to drink. North of the Rio Grande, bumper cotton and sugar-beet crops were ready for harvest, and U.S. farmers were faced with the nightmare of losing it all for want of extra farm hands. Meanwhile, jammed into the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, just below the river, nearly 8,000 Mexican workers waited to be registered as seasonal braceros and to go on north to the harvest. But nothing was being done to send them north; they were stranded...
Over the River. For three days, U.S. officials thrashed about feebly, arrested some 400 Mexicans. Then Grover C. Wilmoth, district immigration director at El Paso, opened the border. His agents hastily registered the braceros at the river bank or on the roads, and waved them along to the waiting farm trucks. Technically they had all been arrested, and paroled to work. The fanners were happy, the braceros were happy; Juárez, if not happy, was mightily relieved...
Latin Americans are generally steering clear of the few Communist and Nazi sympathizers who operate south of the border. They continue to follow and even imitate American customs and ideals, Bataillon added...