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Happy, therefore, was inauguration day in Buenos Aires last week as Agustin Justo turned over the President's palatial Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), the Presidential sash and ebony gold-headed cane to Roberto Ortiz. Six huge U. S. bombers (see p. 77) demonstrated over the city as the President-elect was sworn...
...name, Victor Jourdain supplied money to build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin tissue, were carried to the printers in a hollow cane. Bundles of the finished sheet were transferred in store elevators, on dark street corners, in crowded busses. Yet each man knew only the distribution links above and below him. For aiding Free Belgium two men were shot and scores of others died slowly in German concentration camps without ever knowing...
...output. The U. S., for example, exports no domestic sugar, but grows some 6% of the world total and eats 22%, hence has no quota under the International Sugar Pact. It does have production quotas of its own, however, to control its beet sugar producers in the West, its cane sugar production in Louisiana, Florida and island possessions...
...said the owner of a sprained ankle at the Hygiene Building yesterday when told he would have to use a cane. But the doctor could find no canes in the building. He called Stillman, no canes there. No, there was no need to buy any more, they would all be returned soon...
...popped the doc, "you can't walk without a cane. Come on back!" He called up Dillon Field House. They had one cane but wanted to keep it. The patient paced up and down looking at his watch...