Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning your Oct. 13 story on Franco's anniversary: We are one of the "poorest" countries in Europe because we are still recovering from the money we gave Christopher Columbus to discover you blasted Americans. Keep your money and your awful manners. You are still Indians...
...Columbus, Neb. (pop. 13,000) the mayors of 39 nearby communities gathered this week to break ground for an addition to Behlen Manufacturing Co. and pay their respects to its president, Walter Behlen, 53, a corn-belt Edison. Inventor Behlen, a man given to loud sport shirts and a pink Cadillac, made a gross profit of exactly $194 his first year in business in 1940; last year he earned $3,309,000 by ceaselessly following a simple inventor's rule: "Ideas are a dime a dozen-it's doing something with them that counts...
With something like the grudging irritation that Queen Isabella's customs men must have felt when they waved Columbus into the black Atlantic, New York's kingly Port Authority last week granted limited permission to two airlines to operate commercial jet transports from Idlewild Airport. Within hours, the British Overseas Airways Corp. had hurriedly rounded up twelve paying passengers...
Parietal hours in the Houses will be extended until midnight this Sunday due to the Columbus Day holiday. On Monday parietal hours will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., those normally observed on Sunday...
White House press secretary James C. Hagerty told reporters Thursday he may shortly announce some political activity in connection with the New York trip. Present plans call for Eisenhower to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at Columbus Circle in Manhattan and lay the cornerstone of a 20-million-dollar interchurch center in the Columbia University area...