Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This added another 902,082 square miles to the broad belt of Central Africa which has cast its lot with Britain. The Belgian Congo lies squarely between De Gaullist French Equatorial Africa and the British colonies of Kenya and Tanganyika, but is too wild a region to become a corridor for operations between the two. The Belgian Government in London prepared to mobilize all Belgians abroad, between the ages of 18 and 35, to strengthen the Congo's defenses...
...dissenting vote was cast by the Milton faculty members, who acted as judges, in awarding the decision to Harvard...
...Character," "America Marches On," and "Never a Dull Moment." Ella Logan gives a personality-plus presentation of the hotter numbers, while Christina Lind and Harry Stafford romance through the softer strains. As for the indispensable sex-angle, Audrey Christie leads al the other fifty-odd girls in the cast in laying it on with a capital S. Her dormitory-room strip-tease coached by Maxie and Sid gives the Old Howard touch with a riotous overlay of belly-shaking comedy that is burlesque at its best. It certainly makes Harvard seem a deathly dull place...
...larger public purchasing power. Originally, 90% of his wares came from the U. S. or Europe. But Lojas financed many a backroom Brazilian factory; now 75% of its goods are homegrown, and many a Lojas-squired factory now sells all over Brazil. Some of them have even begun to cast eyes on the world trinket markets once dominated by Czecho-Slovakia and other European countries...
LAST TRAIN OUT-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little, Brown ($2). Topical soufflé in which the crackle of shirt fronts is indistinguishable from the machine-gun fire in Vienna's streets. Usual cast of beautiful baroness, British Intelligence officer, sexy American redhead, all milling around because Nazi invaders want the person and art collection of a rich...