Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perched on orange-colored canvas chairs atop fern-scented Mount Ammouda, smiling King Paul of the Hellenes, grim U.S. General James Van Fleet and several Greek army commanders awaited the signal for the attack. At daybreak, newly arrived U.S.-made Helldivers cut across the pale blue sky to unload their cargo of Napalm fire bombs. In a few minutes, the sleepy purple mountains seemed ablaze. At week's end, King Paul and his party could celebrate a smashing victory...
Having started with the Post Office as a clerk ut 1935, Jesse Donaldson Jr., 38, began catching up with his father, the nation's first career-man Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin. His latest appointment: assistant chief inspector of the U.S. Post Office...
Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, an on-again, off-again Communist Party member, found old ties still binding. When he sought a visa to attend a Los Angeles testimonial dinner, the U.S. embassy politely referred him to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Protested Rivera: "I don't have the honor to belong to the Communist Party. I'm just a simple democrat like anybody else...
Besides managing the Cardinals, Businessman Dyer, 48, has his fingers in a lot of pies. In Houston, he is vice president of the Canada Dry Bottling Co. (where Pitcher Ted Wilks works in the off-season), general manager of an insurance company (which employs Pitcher Pollet part time), co-owner of a realty company and a director of the North Side State Bank...
...catch the farmer's eye, Merrill Lynch posted stock certificates of companies as familiar to farmers as Sears, Roebuck & Co., General Motors Corp., General Electric Co. and Corn Products Refining Co., and pointed out that the shares have been paying 5 to 7%. Though Merrill Lynch was careful not to draw the comparison, this is far bigger than the return that farmers get from savings banks...