Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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His system was simple. He erected a corrugated-tin "clubhouse" on land (which he leased but did not own) in the oak-shaded canyon bottom. Then he lured aging citizens 34 miles from Los Angeles by offering free bus rides and free lunches. From the clubhouse he allowed them to...
One of his customers was a wealthy Spanish cattleman named Ramon Samovia; Yant confided to Samovia that oil had just been discovered near some property he owned in Placerita Canyon-he would be rich as soon as he dug up enough money to sink a well himself. Samovia bought into...
The name of the new organization was a jawbreaker. "When I get to it," said one harassed delegate, "I just say, 'I see, after you,' and I've got it."
China's fugitive Nationalist government tarried at Chengtu just ten days. The night before it fled once more from the oncoming Reds, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called a cabinet session. Decisions: 1) resistance to the Communists on the mainland would go underground; 2) headquarters for some 600,000 Nationalist...
Riding Out the Rise. At week's end Gonzalez made devaluation law by decree. Instead of the eight old dollar-peso exchange rates, Chile got just one, pegged, after talks with the International Monetary Fund, at about 65 to the dollar. At the same time, food and drug products...