Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actually has 40 sons, is protected by an efficient police force. In pilgrim-packed Mecca last week they suddenly arrested on charges of plotting regicide one of the most notorious wastrels in the Near East. He was besotted Sherif Abdul Hamid, whose peccadilloes caused him to be cast off by his family. In Arabia, where the Sherif is considered a mental case, none was surprised when the King's police presently announced, after grilling six and killing one of the followers of Abdul Hamid, that he had merely dreamed up a fantastic scheme of regicide after losing a lawsuit...
...Zorro." If & when Ortiz' health forces the President's permanent retirement, control will pass to the man who stepped in as Acting President, a shrewd, hardbitten, 67-year-old Conservative politico whose nickname, El Zorro, means "The Fox." Ramón Castillo (pronounced castíjo) became Vice President as a compromise candidate on Roberto Ortiz' ticket. When the President broke with the Conservatives and became the rallying point of Radical strength, Conservative strength gathered around Castillo and ex-President Justo. The Acting Presidency has given El Zorro a further chance to consolidate that strength...
Forty-two Votes. Of the 376 electoral votes that will determine the next Presidential election in 1943, 88 will be cast by electors from the Province of Buenos Aires. The next largest number, 42, will be cast by the Province of Santa Fe. Fortnight ago Argentines went to the polls in Santa Fe, to elect a Governor who as a matter of practical politics will control the choice of those 42 electors. When the polls closed, everybody thought the Ortiz candidate had won an easy victory. But a few hours later the Conservative-controlled election board announced the victory...
...ports there are two German, 27 Italian and a quantity of Scandinavian vessels, all seeking to stay out of Britain's reach. Mr. Cross stated perfectly openly: "I naturally cast a covetous eye on those vessels." He covets also some 300,000 U. S. tons now lying idle in port. He recalled that the U. S. saved Britain's bacon in 1918 not so much by fighting in France as by producing 3,033,000 tons of shipping (up from 998,000 tons in 1917) and he made clear that the sea war was the real, basic...
...first time in more than a decade, industry's prime mover-capital-goods expansion-agitated the indexes again. The steel rate soared from 60% of capacity (April) to 92% in September. At 11:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, steelworkers finishing the second shift also finished an era. They cast the years 60,835,000th ton of ingots, and thereby put 1940 ahead of the previous peak steel year of 1929. The FRB production index, its base broadened by FRB statisticians in August, touched its all-time high two months later, kept on going up. Confidence was not an issue...