Word: generally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue-and-white sound truck, trailing behind it the jumble of static and jazz music, rolled along the narrow roads of western Pennsylvania last week into the town the maps call Brush Valley, and the 500 residents call Mechanicsburg. As it stopped before the general store, a dozen children gawked at its placarded sides: "Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. for Congress. Brave Mother of a Brave...
...Reduction of more U.S. tariffs. Though the general tariff level is down to the 1914 mark, the British insist that some of their best items for export cannot compete in the American market because of high discriminatory duties. For example, duties on woolen and worsted cloths can amount to 40 to 45%, clocks up to 150%, china tableware 35%, chamberpots ("sanitary earthenware if of vitreous china...
...More 'U.S. investment in the sterling area, particularly Point Four colonial development. Since the defense costs and dollar deficits of Egypt, India and Southeast Asia are a drain on the British economy, the U.S. might be asked to share the burden in the general interest of Middle and Far Eastern security...
...Fishing." Tito ordered his personal physician, Dr. Popovic, and his permanent companion, General Zezelj, to take me sightseeing. We toured in a brand-new Mercury. I remember that in Brioni's prewar days, the rich international set were permitted to use only bicycles...
...Soviet Union, he recalled, the Russians had given him a horse that nobody had ridden. With gestures, he described his mad ride, whipping through a forest, ducking branches that ripped his clothes, but never letting go until the horse was exhausted. Fascinated, the guests stopped eating and General Zezelj kept muttering, "Bogati, bogati...