Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupied Europe: 75 P-51 fighters and ten B-29 Superfortresses, all of World War II vintage. In all of Europe, the U.S., Great Britain and France together could put no more than 300 combat aircraft in the air. "Suspicion estimates" place the Russian air force along the Western border at better than 4,000 planes...
Maneuvers on the Border. Last week the confusion might have pleased Gavam, for it might persuade the Shah that only Gavam could form a stable government. And the confusion was certainly pleasing to Russia; Persia's series of helpless, do-nothing governments permitted Russia to pose as the hope of Persia's wretched twelve million. When they occupied Azerbaijan during and after World War II, the Russians made a fine show of constructiveness. Their puppet government paved some streets in Tabriz, opened a radio station, started land reforms...
While they wooed Persian peasants with promises of reforms, the Russians also needled the Persian government in a war of nerves. Red army divisions held maneuvers this spring on the Azerbaijan border...
Fair Game. In the tiny village of Esperanza, on the border between the states of Vera Cruz and Puebla, a small group of Evangelistas were holding their regular Sunday afternoon service in a private house. In the plaza, clusters of men were tanking up at the village pulquerias. Soon they were looking for a fight, and the Evangelistas were fair game. One Protestant was killed, four others wounded...
Allowing $4 a cwt. for shipping, shrinkage and 1 ½? lb. duty, Canadian cattlemen could still have made about $8 more by selling south of the border last week. Growers argued that it wasn't the dollars so much as "a solid U.S. market" for the future that they wanted. The best bet was that the government would give it to them in midsummer. Then, packers predicted, sirloin would go to $1.10 a lb. in Ottawa-or to whatever outrageous figure U.S. buyers are paying at the time...