Word: gran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1943, after Mussolini had become the prisoner of Italy's Badoglio Government, it was Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which...
Favors Granted. The trouble began when the powerful semi-official National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia urged exporters to ship only on the eight vessels of the Great Colombia Fleet (Flotá Mercante Gran Colombiana). Coffee exporters were glad to go along; they did not like the recent 25% increase in freight rates by U.S. lines. Besides, like most Colombians, they are proud of the fleet, which began operations last spring (TIME, May 5) under the joint sponsorship of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, to break what was regarded as a U.S. shipping monopoly. The Colombian Government has helped with...
...good fun and the hotels are wonderful - especially the Gran in Managua, where everybody sits around the great open lobby with the swimming pool in the middle, spying on one another. Some day I will discover why all the spies in Central America insist that they are in the lumber business...
...Medellinenses: "In a generation we will have skimmed the cream of economic opportunities in Colombia. After that we will recreate the Gran Colombia (Simon Bolivar's old dream of a united Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador), which the stupid Bogotanos have tried patching together again with flowery speeches and poetry, but which can be sutured only with trade and industry. And then undoubtedly we will draw in Peru, before inquiring into possibilities further south. Half a continent will not be too much elbow room for us." Argentines might be annoyed to know it, but Medellinenses do not take too seriously...
Walk along Madrid's Gran Via in the early evening-the hour of the Paseo. Smart women in furs and well-dressed men jostle along the avenue, huddling in their mufflers against the chill wind from the Guadarramas. Street lights gleam on neatly cleaned streets, on the chaste, well-stocked windows of expensive stores. The roadway is crowded with French, German, Italian, British and American automobiles and with rickety taxis that are always full...