Word: colossuses
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...Argentine newspapers were enthusiastic, but most of them forgot their enthusiasm when they learned that in Washington the House Appropriations Committee had refused to buy Argentine corned beef for the Navy. Only opposition to the Act itself came from the Nazi organs, El Pampero and Crisol. Croaked Crisol: "The Colossus from the North...
...waiting for her in Washington. And $20,000,000, he added, comes to more than two-thirds of her nine months' unfavorable trade balance with the U. S. As the other $10,000,000, the Rich Neigh bor could promise two other favors to the Colossus of the South. One was to keep U.S. wheat out of Brazilian markets, where U. S. dumping in 1938-39 drove Argentine farmers wild. The other was to stand aside on $160,000,000 of beef and corn orders now being placed by the British letting Argentina have first crack...
...World In Flames (Paramount) is prefaced with the statement that it is a picture of the struggle of a free people against a colossus of death. Thereafter it slips into a staccato review of political and diplomatic events from 1929 to 1940 with a string of old newsreel clips. Because many of the shots have been cut to the point where the effect is almost kaleidoscopic, the film loses the nostalgic force of a family album, which is always an attraction in resurrections of old movie scenes. But Paramount intended something else. It wanted to show the inevitable drift toward...
...shines bright on the Mediterranean, and in the year 280 B.C. a certain Chares of Lindus completed a tremendous image of a being he conceived to be the god of that sea's warm sun. The Colossus towered 105 feet above Rhodes for 56 years, then toppled in an earthquake. Great fragments lay about for almost nine centuries, until Saracens sold them to a scrap-metal dealer, who carried them away on the backs of 900 camels...
...sleepy borders of the Rio Grande, 120,000,000 Latin Americans last week came smack up against a fact. The fact was comforting to some, disquieting to others; but to all it was as huge and undeniable as Popocatepetl: that the U. S., either as Good Neighbor or as Colossus of the North, was definitely on the move...