Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sandbagged capital of San José, a Communist named Manuel Mora was the strong man last week. That was about the most significant result of four weeks of civil war in Costa Rica...
Mora, the moody, humorless son of a carpenter, has fought all his life. He had to struggle to get his lawyer's education. Since 1932, he has fought in Congress for a Communist program. Now, in the civil war, he has his chance to put it over. To do so, he is prepared to turn the rebellion into a class war. "The people must seal their social gains with blood," he cried last week. "I will not compromise or throw away anything for which I have fought for 25 years...
...agreed on by medicos both in mufti and in uniform, at a Chicago meeting of the American Medical Association's Council on National Emergency Medical Service. What most worried Rear Admiral Morton D. Willcutts: Where to stack the radioactive corpses? Said he: "The question of disposal of civil ian dead will be formidable...
Raise Granted. The Civil Aeronautics Board granted a 35% mail-rate boost to five major domestic airlines-American, Eastern, Northwest, T.W.A., and United. For all but American the boost was retroactive to Jan. 1. American had not asked for a boost, let alone a retroactive one, but CAB decided it should have the increase anyway. The new rate schedule would give the lines another $5,271,000 in revenue this year...
...percent for the Communists, but most authorities now agree that it will be closer to the former figure. If his proves true, de Gasperi will not be forced to include the Communists in his government and risk another Czechoslovakia, and he will undoubtedly to able to prevent civil strife with American arms. If, on the other hand, the Democratic Front receives close to a majority of the votes, their exclusion from the new government would lead to civil war which the rightists would be unable to quench...