Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sparkplug of the congress was suave, greying Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexican boss of the leftist Latin American Confederation of Workers. An old hand at organizing pro-Communist meetings, he had the shabby hall packed on opening night with 5,000 people, including 800 delegates from the U.S., Canada and Latin America. During a two-hour delay before the rally got under way, they whooped it up with cheers for "Peace, Peace, Peace...
Died. José Clemente Orozco, 65, one of the Big Three (with Rivera and Siqueiros) of Mexican art; after a heart attack; in Mexico City. In his youth, a firecracker blew off his left hand and seriously damaged his sight, but intense, contentious "El Abrojo" (the spiny cactus) managed to win fame as a mural painter...
Pink-cheeked Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer last week crawled tentatively out on a limb. Said he: "The end of the recession may be at hand." Sad-faced old Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, was not ready to go quite that far. He was "very definitely encouraged," though he did not think that "disinflation" was ended...
...blonde in a regal white dress (by Hattie Carnegie). She rustled her billowing petticoats and smiled a smile of quiet rapture. Above her decolletage, as bare as a lie and as bold as fashion, sparkled a small cascade of diamonds-or what looked like diamonds. Her slender, black-gloved hand gripped a black cigarette holder from which, now & again, she flicked a trace of ash with gracious disdain. A man's voice cooed...
...other hand, the huge U.S. oil industry, which had thought last spring that the boom was over, changed its mind. The vast production of new cars, diesel engines, oil heaters, etc. had swelled oil demand so much that the U.S. Bureau of Mines forecast greater demand this year than last. The bright outlook caused oil shares to pace the recent stock market upswing. The market got a new lift this week from the prospect of a settlement of the steel wage dispute (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the first day's trading, steel shares gained as much as a point...