Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany's Ambassador to Washington, Wilhelm Grewe. He said he believed the Soviet Union might once again try to impose a total blockade of the West's sector of Berlin. Grewe told the National Press Club the West faces a dangerous situation even though Russia probably does not intend to start a major war over Berlin...
...actively against Madero, supported Victoriano Huerta as a better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano Carranza in a new revolt. In Washington Woodrow Wilson realized Huerta could not maintain stability and switched U.S. support to Carranza, saying. "I intend to teach the South American republics to elect good men." A U.S. fleet invaded Veracruz in 1914; Carranza won. but repudiated the U.S. intervention. Nevertheless, two years later, Wilson ordered General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing into Mexico on a fruitless pursuit of Pancho Villa after Villa had raided Columbus...
...send $13.5 million worth of Soviet-made benzene to Dow Chemical Co. over next two years. Dow will get the benzene (used in synthetic rubber, cleaners, plastics) for 25? per gal., v. U.S. price of 31?. Company will still buy 80% of its benzene from domestic sources, does not intend to let its Russian imports run over 10% of its supply...
...caricatures drawn on stage by the HDC are violent, rakish monstrosities whose antics are usually funny, especially when the actors slow down and give Brecht's witty asides a chance. Perhaps, as the run progresses, some will give their lines more of the broad irony that Brecht seems to intend. Others, particularly Eugene Pell, Richard Smithies, David Mills and Edith Iselin lay it on just right. And Claire Lu Thomas, portraying the angelic prostitute, manages to keep her sweet head in admittedly adverse circumstances (everybody picks on her because she's good...
...course, if you don't keep moving, you're dead,' a dropforge developing engineer remarked. "I won't speculate on what's on their mind for me--but a company doesn't spend all this money on a man if they don't intend to do something with...