Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these steps did not go far enough, Chile planned to create a state-controlled Corporation del Cobre which would control the production, price and distribution of all Chilean copper. In effect, U.S. companies would lose their firm hold over the world's biggest source of the metal outside U.S. borders. Chile was reluctant to take the move. But its determination to stand on its own economic feet, whether well-shod by U.S. dollars or not, was too strong to permit an alternative...
Then energetic Conductor Norman Del Mar bounced into the tiny pit for some rehearsing. Explaining how to count time and watch his baton for cues, he put the audience through four songs, three to be sung in turn before the opera's three scenes and a finale to be bellowed out with the opera's cast (one-third professional, two-thirds schoolchildren). That done, intermission was announced; in their growing enthusiasm, most of the audience did not even realize that Let's Make an Opera!, otherwise known as The Little Sweep, was already half over...
...Antonia Handler Chayes of New York City; Mary Davis of Suffolk County, L. I. N. Y.; Alice Gilbert of New York City; Alice Gossard of Wollaston; Muriel Kaplan of Chelsea; Jennifer Seltridge of Red Bank, N. J.; Raya Speigel of New York City; Irene Tinker of Wilmington, Del.; and Naney Woodman of Wellesley...
...marooned and rivers pushed over their banks in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Almost everywhere else the weather was hot; beer and bathing-suit sales boomed and female sunbathers went to the office looking as though they had been parboiled. The sun was almost the undoing of people near Wilmington, Del., where a dead whale washed ashore and stank up the countryside...
Wrote the Rev. Theodore Bell of St. John's Chapel, Del Monte, Calif., in an open letter to the Episcopal Church Pension Fund...