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Last week, Monrovia was flag-decked and floodlit as it embarked, with prayer and fireworks, on three weeks of fortissimo festivities. The era of the mammy-chair formally drew to a close; the U.S. made Liberia a birthday gift of a brand-new, $18,000,000 port (a miracle financed by Lend-Lease funds...
...fourth of India's assets, but was not willing to pay one-fourth of the $6 billion national debt. Railway rolling stock will probably remain on that side of the border where it stands on independence day. (The Moslem League accused the Hindu-controlled Government of switching brand-new American locomotives from Pakistan areas to Delhi, substituting old, burnt-out engines.) The 40,000 staff members of New Delhi's vast imperial Secretariat were busy last week counting typewriters and almirahs (cabinets), carpets and inkpots. Typists worked four hours a day overtime copying files, so that each...
During the first meeting around the brand-new green baize (the old cloth had been stolen by a souvenir hunter after last year's peace conference), Molotov sat and listened to Bevin and Bidault. They wanted to establish international commissions to Marshall-plan European recovery on a continental basis. Then, with instructions from the Kremlin, Molotov spoke...
...roughly shaped granite rocks-crude anti-tank barriers left over from the war-dotted a hill; behind a brown horse, a sturdy, towheaded Finn who had already plowed several acres on either side was now plowing between the boulders. His neat house with its red tile roof and his brand-new red barn stood proudly at the top of the hill...
...frivolous," he said. "Got to draw the line somewhere, y'know, but we'll hang 'em on the scaffolding." There was some dull speechmaking. But what the crowd wanted most of all was a good long look at their old friend. Armed with a brand-new bow, he looked happy to be back. "In his exile," mused London County Council's Lord Latham, "Eros must often have wondered what was happening in Piccadilly." The crowd laughed knowingly. "I am not going into details...