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...shout Perón down. Milling about with the usual Perón nationalists and bullyboys were thousands of well-dressed, middle-class voters. Perón's attempt to split off a sector of Argentina's big Radical (center) Party seemed to be making some headway...
...France: "Conditions now appear ripe for improvement." The curve of the national economy, which touched its nadir several weeks ago, is now rising. Shipping is no longer so scarce; for example, the port of Marseilles handles more than its prewar tonnage. Carloadings are up. The textile industry is gathering headway. By 1946 French agriculture will supply the nation's bread, the period of "repairs" will be over, the period of "getting started" will begin. And by 1948 the period of genuine "economic planning" can be launched...
...Soviet view prevailed, it would be Russia's second big attempt to form a new labor international. The Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern) was quietly quashed seven years ago, never having made headway towards its object, to capture the conservative trade unions of all countries...
...indoor rowing machines employ the same principle as the treadmill, with the rower putting considerable effort into his work but apparently making no headway. Actual progress is not noted until the following spring when the rower steps into a real shell...
...Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies -including British, Canadians, Poles, Greeks, Indians, Palestinians, Brazilians, French, Tunisians. Senegalese, and U.S. (white, Negro and Nisei) troops-were making headway. If Rimini falls, the way will lie open into the Po valley and the Gothic Line will be flanked. Last week in the course of this fighting, another nation was precipitated, almost unnoticed, into the abyss...