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...thousand inhabitants and three thousand refugees were first stampeded by hand grenades and heavy bombs, driven below the ground by machinegun strafing, and then buried beneath the houses that were wrecked and burned by incendiary bombs. Many were killed in the fields or in the street leading down to Casa de Juntas. Sheep and cattle, as well as the humans who had brought them to market, were wiped out. The only retaliation measures were performed by the Basque clergy, who blessed and prayed for kneeling crowds in the crumbling dugouts...
...most thrilling account of it appeared in Italy. All Rome papers announced that he was seriously ill, that doctors had been summoned to the White House, that the entire nation was disturbed. Finally the Italian papers had the President confined to a casa di salute-roughly, a place where people go to get over a nervous breakdown...
Ships and Sheep. Turning the problem over in his mind as he sat at his desk in the Casa Rosada,* Ramên Castillo had only to look out of the window to see one miserable aspect of it: Buenos Aires har bor, once South America's busiest port, almost deserted of shipping, with 18 German and Italian vessels lying at anchor as reminders of the pressure on him. Once an average of 150 ships a day put into Buenos Aires. Now there are about 26 a week. Of 400,000 tons of meat which Britain contracted for six months...
...thought they could handle, Castillo a Conservative who was considered harmless by the Radicals. Nobody could foresee then that Ortiz would infuriate his Conservative supporters by fighting for honest elections, or that before he could complete his reform he would be laid low with diabetes, plumping Castillo into the Casa Rosada. Castillo has been Acting President of Argentina since last July 3 (TIME, July...
...Casa Holck (40% owned in Germany, 40% owned by Germans in Mexico) was last year blacklisted by some U. S. firms, but got their products anyway through dummy agents. Casa Hoick distributes for Deere & Co., Goodyear, and Cortland Grinding Wheels Corp...