Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capital Transit Company agreed to fly small U.S. and Mexican flags from its streetcars and buses; the Pan-American Union donated 250 blow-ups of Mexican scenes for store windows; and signs shouting "Viva Mexico," "Welcome President Aleman," and "Bienvenido Don Miguel" were readied for hanging on lampposts. The Fire Department planned to arch two 100-ft. ladders in an inverted V over the Memorial Bridge, deck them in the red, white and green of Mexico, tack on huge pictures of President Aleman, and hang a giant Mexican flag from the point of the V. Some 18 bands were assigned...
...indications of the old, District-wide apathy toward visiting dignitaries had the planners resorting to psychological stratagems. Schoolchildren were told that if they got a note from home okaying their attendance at the reception, they would get a small Mexican flag. The reasoning was that, since no parent would let his child venture into the welcoming crowd alone, and no child would give up the flag without a prolonged and deafening squawk, the whole family would have to turn...
...leave the country to visit the U.S.* got it on condition that he be gone only for the time "strictly necessary." (Señora Ricardo F. de Silva of Los Angeles, Calif, called to tell him that if he would visit L.A. he would be given a Mexican flag so big that 300 men would be needed to lift...
...foreign competition is increasing, much faster than anticipated. In the first half of 1946, U.S.-flag lines were carrying 96% of transatlantic traffic. By last week, although overall traffic was up after the bad winter, the percentage was down to 79%. U.S. lines, Patterson felt, could not compete among themselves and with government-backed foreign lines as well. To lick this foreign type of monopoly, he would set up U.S. monopolies...
Under his plan, the U.S. Government would set up two Chosen Instrument corporations or community companies owned, and run, by all U.S. airlines. One Chosen Instrument would run the U.S.-flag line in the Atlantic; the other would operate it in the Pacific. (Latin America would be left as is, with the present regulated competition.) Patterson thinks that the stultifying evils of monopoly could be avoided by using each instrument as an efficiency check on the other...