Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was no mere war philanthropy. Liberated North and West Africa are rich in palm oils, some foodstuffs, but short of cloth and other manufactured goods. Here the U.S. may trade resources. Across the Mediterranean, unliberated Italy is hungry, war-weary. Here the promise of food and a peace with security might help open a beach head for Allied occupation. Around the world, as the Axis conquerors are rolled back, the plan is to supply every nation with its needs, toward an economic stability more permanent than the ruins of the peace that followed World...
...downstairs bar, a 16-year-old busboy stood on a bench to replace a light bulb that a prankish customer had removed. He lit a match. It touched one of the artificial palm trees that gave the Cocoanut Grove its atmosphere; a few flames shot up. A girl named Joyce Spector sauntered toward the checkroom because she was worried about her new fur coat...
Panic's Start. Before Joyce Spector reached the cloakroom, the Cocoanut Grove was a screaming shambles. The fire quickly ate away the palm tree, raced along silk draperies, was sucked upstairs through the stairway, leaped along ceiling and wall. The silk hangings, turned to balloons of flame, fell on table and floor...
Tailored by Tunesmith Irving Berlin for the suave, sleepy voice of Cinemactor Bing Crosby, this song (from Paramount's Holiday Inn) originally expressed the longing for sleet and ice of an Easterner marooned among the palm trees of Hollywood. But with thousands of U.S. servicemen facing snowless Christmases from North Africa to Guadalcanal, White Christmas has unexpectedly become the first big sentimental song hit of World...
...face, according to his friends, that looks as though it was carved by a hatchet: Major General Charles W. Ryder, 50. He was a hero of World War I. As if with foresight the Republic of France then pinned the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with palm on "Doc" Ryder...