Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...table, bare except for letters and newspapers lying on a small radio, hung a naked light bulb. In the adjoining room stood a metal bed, a lavender-colored wardrobe, a few nondescript wooden chairs. "My parents were farmers," Vargas began. "Now that I am an old man, it is good to be back in my childhood scenes...
...relations, Vargas was silent for fully two minutes as he toyed with an unlit cigar, crumpled a handkerchief, and looked out across his rolling pastures. Then he said: "Roosevelt trusted me. He believed that Brazil should be a great country. A strong Brazil would make a strong ally-a good customer. We were right when we had that point of view...
...experts stopped the black fly's first severe invasion of the hemisphere, in Cuba. At that time they imported a parasitic insect from Malaya that destroyed the pest. But for Mexico, where the fly turned up in 1935 in west coast Sinaloa, the old parasite was no good. Since then U.S. scientists have found a new Malayan parasite, a wasp whose larvae will hatch inside the Mexican fly's larvae and devour them. This week a shipment of wasps was on its way to Mexico for the test...
Canadians who had waited two years for the government to take another slice off their high-level wartime taxes got good news last week. In his budget speech, Finance Minister Doug Abbott announced that the government would reduce its revenue from income taxes by 32%. Accordingly, he took 750,000 taxpayers off the lists by raising the exemptions from $750 to $1,000 for a single person and from $1,500 to $2,000 for a married couple with no children.* For those who still had to pay, the rates were trimmed. The new rates and exemptions would be retroactive...
...Washington, Representative J. Parnell Thomas was in "good" condition after a 2½-hour operation. His doctors said they had cut out the cause of the internal hemorrhages that have plagued him for the past eight years...