Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before the session ended, George Drew and his party began to attack the Liberals for their bureaucracy, their failure to do anything about a prospective drop in Canada's foreign trade, and their haste in calling the election. There was a good chance that the country would also hear him repeat a charge that he made last week-that the Liberals were "socialists in low gear...
Chic Young has a simple explanation for the success of Blondie, which appears in 1,085 U.S. and Canadian papers and 178 foreign ones,* has been the foundation for 25 movies and a radio program, and has furnished names for countless dresses, dolls, sandwiches, shampoos, kazoos and mops. Cartoonist Young regards himself as a kind of chronicler of "the common man." Says he: "Blondie appeals to people because it is about simple things-eating, sleeping, the business of raising children, happenings around the house...
...further news of Blondie, see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. Aurora Aragon Quezon, 61, widow of the first President of the Philippines; of bullet wounds (her motorcade was ambushed by Filipino outlaws); in Nueva Ecija Province, P.I. (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Balloon & Star. Project Saucer sifted more than 240 reports in the" U.S. and 30 in foreign parts. About 30% of the "unidentified aerial phenomena," it decided, were due to astronomical objects, such as meteors, bright stars or planets. Other flying discs turned out to be weather balloons, some of them carrying lights, or the big plastic balloons that scientists send up to study cosmic rays. Some of the mysterious lights were probably reflections on an airplane's windshield...