Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week of Nationalist victories in China's civil war. Government forces pressed the Communists hard on nearly all fronts, were rapidly driving a wedge between Yenan and Kalgan, the key Communist bases. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces also opened an all-out drive to recapture North China's vital communications network, had already regained control of the important Peiping-Cheng-teh railroad through the seizure of Kupehkow, strategic Great Wall pass...
Minister of the Interior Victor Román y Reyes had passed the word to innumerable Somoza relatives in important Government posts, and the tight machine that combined local military and civil governorships in one henchman's hands executed the dictator's orders as smoothly as ever. It was still Somozaland...
...page exhibit weighing almost seven pounds, Pan Am set forth to the Civil Aeronautics Board its claims to four coast-to-coast routes and five main north-&-south domestic routes. Pan Am's main argument: domestic lines can now offer passage to foreign points from interior U.S. cities. If Pan Am can land only at gateway coastal cities, it will not be able to compete on equal terms...
...domestic airlines are carrying more passengers in more planes than they ever have before. But the Civil Aeronautics Board reported last week that they are losing money, nevertheless...
Jefferson Davis made many mistakes, Von Abele explains, but his intense, opinionated, neurotic little Vice President made still greater ones. Whatever Stephens' achievements before the Civil War or after, "there can be no palliation of his role in the collapse of the Confederacy. ... He comforted deserters and disloyal men. His incessant criticism embarrassed the government; his personal quarrels with Davis weakened [its] unity...