Word: macao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months. He read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from H. L. (The American Language") Mencken down to a lifer in a federal prison who told him about the real McCoy (from the real Macao-the uncut heroin smuggled in from the Portuguese island colony of Macao...
...Ordered at long last strict controls on all goods destined for Red China, Hong Kong or Macao. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer also controlled war-potential goods passing through U.S. ports en route to Russia and satellites...