Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paper. That afternoon, while government speakers droned on, Convention President Mercante, who is provincial governor of Buenos Aires and one of Perón's closest friends, met with Peronista leaders. Shortly afterwards, the majority floor leader, Angel Miel Asquia, came out to tell the press that they had decided to drop the proposal to let a President succeed himself...
...hills looking for Proctor. Only after getting tough with the farmers were they led to a mountain grave. There they found the battered body of Roberto Proctor. He was the ninth official (and second American) to die at the hands of superstitious Mexican farmers fearful that anti-aftosa teams came to do them harm instead of good...
...owners of Hays Ltd., two brothers named Tom and Harry Hays, first met Eladio Susaeta in 1940 when he came to Canada looking for clients. Five years later he was on their payroll. Since then Susaeta has made two trips a year through the hemisphere, has sold Holsteins from Puerto Rico to Argentina. Venezuela and Uruguay are his steadiest customers. Elsewhere sales have increased in direct ratio to urbanization, which has boosted the demand for milk...
...announcement came almost two years to the day (Feb. 13, 1947) after Alberta's famed Leduc well had started production. In those two years Alberta's output had risen to 45,000 barrels a day, was just a shade short of meeting the average daily oil requirements (55,000 barrels) of Canada's three prairie provinces...
...Soldier George Marshall came back to Washington after three weeks of convalescence from a kidney operation, was about ready to get on with his new job: chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. His predecessor: the late John J. Pershing. His new offices: the Pentagon suite which Black Jack never...