Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working the Mine. At Allied urging, Dictator Getulio Vargas nationalized both the mountain and the rickety, narrow-gauge railway that leads to the port of Vitoria, 375 twisting, malarial miles away. When the Rio Doce Valley Co. was formed to administer the entire property the government and private investors subscribed to its $15 million capitalization and the U.S. Export-Import Bank chipped in $19 million more...
...expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when his car blew up on a road mine. Athens police were alerted by a report of Communist forces only 15 miles from the capital. This, however, turned...
...American lieutenant colonel had stumbled on the treasure, 2,000 feet underground in a German salt mine. After being on show for a month in Washington, the 202 paintings will be returned to Germany-but not to Berlin, for fear that the Russians might grab them, as they grabbed the treasures of the Zwinger in Dresden. Instead, they will probably go to Wiesbaden and Munich, in the U.S. zone...
Like Old Times. The auto industry, not yet feeling the effects of the coal mine stoppage, expected to make more than 1,250,000 units in the first quarter, about equal to the peak prewar total. For customers awaiting new cars, the volume was not so cheering as it seemed: 27% of it would be in trucks, compared to an average of about 20% prewar...
...Make Mine Manhattan. A gay, witty revue (TIME...