Word: ma
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...Though it produces and exports more goods than ever, Latin America's income from foreign trade is dropping. The prices of what it sells (coffee, farm products, petroleum, minerals) are falling; the prices of what it buys (industrial ma-thinery, tractors, cars) are rising steadily. ¶Foreign private investment-as lately as five years ago the Latin American area was the No. 1 beneficiary-is falling fast. Capital from U.S. Government sources has also been decreasing. In 1959, the Export-Import Bank of Washington collected far more in repayments and interest from the region than it laid...
...Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson was elected Governor of Texas in 1924, succeeding her husband, who was impeached and therefore ineligible for reelection. During the first of her two terms, she freed 3.600 convicts from the state penitentiary. In the early days of the New Deal, Florida's Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, served in Congress, later became Franklin Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark, the first woman to head a foreign mission. The doughty Frances Perkins became F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor-the first woman Cabinet member. Mary Teresa Norton went to Congress on the insistence...
...entire South last spring-six years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional-a grand total of 4.200 Negro children attended classes with whites. The vast ma jority of that number-some 3,300-were in 125 west Texas districts. There were 22 in one Miami school and 490 in another that had only eight white students. In the rest of the South, the number rose from 199 the year before to 400. Yet even that tiny gain, most of it token integration, was the biggest in history. What will happen this year...
Locomotive Chorus. When country singing came out of the hills, its highly developed morbid strain came too, and the form soon adapted itself to new material: guitarists began twanging out such up-to-date items as Old Man Atom with a locomotive chorus ("Hir-o-shi-ma, Na-ga-sa-ki"). When little Kathy Fiscus died at the bottom of a California well in 1949, the Ballad of Kathy Fiscus was probably inevitable, like the more recent Ballad of Caryl Chessman and today's Ballad of Francis Powers...
...soap opera is an island. When Helen Trent died in June, the bell was really tolling for Ma Perkins, The Second Mrs. Burton and all their kin. Over the past decade radio networks have been steadily losing time to their affiliated stations (who prefer to schedule local disk jockeys, with whom they can make far more money). Across the country fewer stations scheduled network drama every season; sooner or later the "soaps" had to go. NBC scrapped them at the beginning of this year. Last week CBS announced that the last seven on the air would...