Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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$84,000 for Flax. The nation was enormously rich, enormously productive. Employment was at a record 60 million level. U.S. farmers paid off their mortgages, rolled in money and contemplated more fine crops, more high profits. In Dutton, Mont., a farmer outbid professional buyers for $93,000 in municipal bonds...
Typewriters & Inkpots. Meanwhile, Moslems and Hindus were wrangling over their shares of the inheritance from the British Raj. Fifty committees set up to divide the Government's assets proceeded along 50 different lines. The Moslem League wanted one-fourth of India's assets, but was not willing to...
Nowhere in the world were there meatier, tastier ducks than those which the Emperor Tung Chi raised in the Imperial aviaries at Peking, China. In 1873 a Connecticut Yankee named James E. Palmer contrived to bring three of the Emperor's ducks and one indispensable drake to the U.S...
A marine in dress blues ushered five sober-looking Japanese into the crowded auditorium of Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building. Their dark, wrinkled civilian suits looked out of place among the sparkling Navy whites, the trim Army sun tans and Marine blues of the U.S. officers, and the summer...
The 19-ft. Lincoln, slumped comfortably in "a Roman chair, embodies the best in Daniel French's art. Despite its size, the statue looks human enough to be a real person-somehow marbleized. The quiet hands rest loosely, and inappropriately, on chair arms ornamented with bundled rods in bas...