Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was much complaining upriver, but little was done about it until Argentina's reactionary Government put itself out of good international society by its too-friendly attitude toward Germany. Then things began to happen. Paraguay, with its strategic position and the fightingest population in South America, was courted from all sides. Big and arming Brazil gave a 100,000 conto loan ($5,170,000), gave President Morinigo a royal tour, offered freeport privileges at Santos on the open Atlantic. The U.S. has constructed a much-needed road in Paraguay, is building another, and has flooded the little country...
...Front-line air raids usually happen too fast for recording...
There is a plot, if you're the type that insists on formalities--a sort of dishwater affair about a soldier of 1918 vintage, his son, a girl or two, and some other people we didn't happen to notice. But despite the Hollywood additions, "This Is the Army" is still a stage show, a great spectacle with a top-notch array of talent. The soldier cherns makes like Fred Waring only better, and many of the individual stars are superb...
...meatblock ("Nice Fresh Babies-79? a Pound"). The pacifist group killed compulsory military training out of the Defense Act of 1920; the regular Army was later cut to 125,000; Stallings' What Price Glory? had a long run. Everyone vowed again and again that it must not happen again...
...When Lord Halifax said "anything may now happen," Wall Street stressed...