Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governments had spent $250,000 to give the college a global air. Hunter was not really big enough. Already, Secretary General Trygve Lie had a line on a likely spot for U.N.'s next visit-the spacious, glass-bricked, $18 million Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake Success, Long Island...
Last week, a jovial 14-car motorcade, containing all but the U.S. and Egyptian delegates, and spearheaded by New York's handwringing, homburg-hatted Grover Whalen, set out for Long Island to seek another temporary home...
Russian Delegate Andrei Gromyko, making his second appearance since his walkout, was particularly gay. The Soviet Purchasing Commission had just bought the $1 million Long Island estate pf deceased capitalist George Dupont Pratt for a reported $120,000 (see INTERNATIONAL) . He himself had received a box of flowers from an admirer who wrote "God bless you and Uncle Joe" and signed himself "Rock-ribbed Republican." The scenery was nice too. Gromyko even accepted a light from a reporter for the Russophobe Chicago Tribune...
...developing industry he claimed the island could in time establish a balanced economy that would overcome the crippling grip of the one-crop system...
Jose Podin, former commissioner of Education in Puerto Rico, charged on Thursday night that the island's present suger-dominated economy is "very unsatisfactory." His address was made before members of the Spanish Club in Harvard Hall...