Word: ola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willis was ready to turn his interest to account. His idea: a 1½-story, 6-room prefab house complete with plumbing, for $3,500. It took him four more years to work the bugs out of his plan. By last week he thought he had. From his Home-Ola Corp. plants in Chicago ten complete plywood houses were being shipped every day. By August he hopes to ship 1,500 a month...
...Indalecáo Prieto, Spain's Socialist ex-Defense Minister and Negrin's bitter enemy. Prieto is supported by the Junta Espaãola de Liberatián (moderate's and Socialists) whose President Alvaro de Al-bornoz calls Negrin "Russia's candidate...
...Mexico City the exiled members of the Republican Cortes had been ordered to assemble on Jan. 10 by Diego Martinez-Barrio, last president of the Cortes and leader of the Junta Española de Liberatión. Included in this junta were leaders of the Center, Moderate Left, Catalonian Anarchists. Excluded were the Communists. Its guiding intelligence was Indalecio Prieto, right-wing Socialist and onetime Minister of War in the Spanish Republican Government. The junta's most important asset: an almost legendary cargo of Spanish gold, silver bars, securities, bullion, jewels, shipped to Mexico when the Spanish Republic...
...Ola, Norwegian refugee now training in Canada with the Royal Norwegian Air Force and keeping his surname secret lest his family be punished: the U.S. ski-jumping championship; with a score of 230.2 points; dethroning Defending Champion Torger Tokle, another Norseman; before a crowd of 12,000; at Duluth, Minn. Tokle, who outjumped Ola but could not match his flawless form, has, since coming to the U.S. three years ago, captured 35 out of 39 tournaments, set 19 hill records, jumped 288 ft., a U.S. record...
...week it was officially reported that Spain had at last concluded an accord with the Vatican and unofficially reported that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had won the right to appoint Spanish bishops (see p. 65). With this feather in its beret, Spain's one party, the Falange Española Tradicionalista, which has fought to make the Spanish Catholic Church, not Roman, but Spanish, next day won an even greater victory: success in the long tug of war between Spain's politicians and soldiers...