Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most important of all, the republics set to work to make what they could no longer import. Argentines shipped fewer hides, turned them into finished leather goods themselves. Chileans proudly looked for the label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...
...obvious organizations such as the Gestapo and SS, but also the then-aristocratic High Command. At one time the Army had ordered executions speeded up because of a food and housing shortage on the eastern front. The secret shooting of recaptured P.O.W.s had been given the professional military label of "operation bullet...
...series by foreign artists (TIME, Apr. 30). The book contains a few interesting pictures (some of them badly reproduced), such as Grant Wood's tufted Fall Plowing, to represent Iowa; John Steuart Curry's praying Negroes in a flood, which Curry called The Mississippi and the book labels Tennessee; John Falter's End of School (Pennsylvania); Dong Kingman's watercolor, Morning in New Orleans; Charles Burchfield's The Great Elm (New York). George Grosz's Tobacco Road looked as if he had seen the stage play, but not Georgia. A boy holding a lemon...
...these factors are now paying off in deficit dividends-the actual presence of our Armies completely negating the high-powered advertising that preceded us, a product that didn't live up to its label because someone forgot to put in the right ingredients...
...this armed intervention, as many a critic of Chiang, as the Chinese Communists and many a U.S. leftist would surely label it? The policymakers' answer on this point is a strong no; the U.S. does not intend to intervene in China's internal affairs. But the U.S. cannot permit China's civil strife to interfere with the discharge of solemn U.S. obligations to the Chinese Government-chief among them the removal of the Japanese from China...