Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stassen: Generalissimo Stalin ... I would be interested to know if you think [our] two economic systems can exist together in the same modern world in harmony...
...Manhattan, the hero's tale of the man who jumped for the bit to stop a runaway horse was re-enacted in modern terms by a motorist named Hugh Kelly. Seeing a taxicab out of control with its driver slumped over the wheel, Kelly swung his own car in front of the cab, eased it to a stop. The cabdriver, victim of a heart attack, was dead by the time an ambulance arrived...
...salt monopoly. The national lottery, nominally run by his brother-in-law Ramon Savinon, nets $15,000 a month. Brother Anibal makes the mahogany concession worth $400,000 a year. But the slickest parlay is in cattle. The biggest cattle raiser in the Republic, the Benefactor operates the most modern slaughterhouse, and sets his own price on all cattle sold in the country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef to their Puerto Rican markets. Dominican soldiers load the ships for Trujillo. They...
...performance, which will be free and open to the public, will include music both modern and somewhat old-fashioned, ranging from a selection by Handel to contemporary compositions...
...Messiah Robert K. Bingham '48 will speak . . . against modern life . . . in general," he continued, adding that the Society "feels strongly" about tinfoil, but can make no relevant comment at the present time...