Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yawned prodigiously in his front-row seat. When the Congress rose to applaud at the end of the speech, Harry Truman's grim expression was outdone only by that of New York's Communist-line Representative, Vito Marcantonio. To be different, Little Marc "applauded" by tapping his palm with a cigaret...
Bright spots remained. Output of electrical energy had hit an alltime high, glass production again was normal. Belgium's rich Congo Colony piled up lush foreign exchange by exporting annually up to 5 billion francs' worth of copper, palm oil, diamonds and secret quantities of uranium ore (of which Belgians believe the Congo contains half the world's known supply...
...IRENE M. PRICE Palm Beach...
Died. Kenneth Craven Hogate, 49, hefty Hoosier publisher of the Wall Street Journal, president of Barren's Publishing Co., chairman of Dow, Jones & Co., Inc. (financial ticker service), close friend and 1944 presidential campaign adviser of Thomas E. Dewey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...Palm Beach, the Duke of Windsor made a remark that might just possibly foreshadow the biggest literary event since Forever Amber. He was thinking, said he, of writing his autobiography. But it might take a while: "I use the hunt-&-peck system of typing...