Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nightmare. When war came, Manuel Roxas joined the Army, where he caught General MacArthur's eye. The Japs discovered him early in 1942 when he was a Filipino war prisoner on Mindanao. They handled him gingerly: big plans were stirring. In November 1942, they flew him to his home in Manila, wooed him, and proposed that he take part in a puppet government...
...next four years. The price would be $1.55 a bushel. This would ensure Britons cheap bread and Canadians a guaranteed market, although prairie farmers complained bitterly that they were losing millions of dollars. (U.S. farmers were getting $2.16 a bushel.) Nevertheless, Britain's Food Minister John Strachey flew out to Ottawa to sign on the dotted line...
...British market. This did not matter now, but in years of surplus crops it might cost the U.S. farmer plenty. Furthermore, the State Department warned that the British loan, still awaiting House approval, might lose enough votes from the wheat-producing West to be defeated. Britain bowed; Strachey flew home empty handed...
Earl Browder, new U.S. representative for Soviet publishers, flew in from Moscow, like any bourgeois tripper, with presents for the Mrs.: a bottle of perfume and four Russian dolls. At the airport reporters fell on him. Had he seen Molotov? Yes. Had he seen Stalin...
Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York flew to California for a ten-day vacation, gladdened the heart of Actor Pat O'Brien by standing as godfather to O'Brien's infant daughter, christened Kathleen Bridget...