Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gamble. Geologists have long known of the vast iron ore riches in the trough straddling the border of Quebec and Labrador. When Dominion Geologist A. P. Low talked about the deposits 50 years ago, Mesabi was just coming into its own, and nobody was interested in the subArctic wilderness. In 1937, when Quebec Geologist Joe Retty came out of Ungava with a more detailed report of high-grade iron ore, Mesabi was still king. But as war demand cut deep into Mesabi, Retty's reports became more interesting. By 1942 Hollinger President Jules Timmins was ready to gamble...
...around for long. He was half paralyzed and shamble-gaited-the result of a brain tumor that struck him down in Los Angeles nine years ago. At times he conducted as if inspired, and at times he floundered hopelessly. His sudden rages and prolonged depressions seemed sometimes to border on madness. Even his friends had begun to doubt whether stormy Otto Klemperer, the once brilliant conductor of pre-Hitler Berlin, would ever have an orchestra of his own again...
James Strom Thurmond, a Southern politician little known and therefore possibly underrated in the North, made a sortie last week into political no-man's land. Appearing in Baltimore, in the border state of Maryland, he was met by a college student dressed in the full regalia of a Confederate brigadier and a mildly interested audience. Standing just over on his side of the Mason-Dixon line, the governor of South Carolina sounded his defiance...
...days after his replacement arrived from Warsaw, the ex-consul bade them all farewell and proudly displayed two tickets for home, via Venice. Boarding the train next day, he bundled his family off before it reached Venice, roared across the Swiss border in a taxi and hopped the first plane to Johannesburg, South Africa. At the same time the Czechoslovakian Ministry in Rome became impervious to telephone bells. Czech Minister Jan Pauliny-Toth had slipped across the Swiss border, London bound...
Next day the Hungarian Communist-controlled cabinet issued an order seizing MAORT on charges of "economic sabotage." The day after, Ruedemann and Bannantine were notified that they had been expelled from Hungary. In a fast car, police took them from 60 Andrassy Ut to the Austrian border, unceremoniously ordered them over the line. It was the seventh day since their arrest. Six days later they were in Washington, reporting to the U.S. Government while wondering what could be done about the $25 million that American shareholders had lost in MAORT's seizure...