Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean that Argentina (or the U.S.) was ready to let bygones be bygones. As Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia pointed out, the Act of Chapultepec only bound Argentina to attend another Pan-American conference. In Washington, State Department officials heard from U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith that Perón would not toss out old Nazi friends like Ludwig Freude. And the U.S. still stood on Secretary Byrnes's "deeds, not promises...
...able to "seduce" F.D.R. into a "counterrevolutionary foreign policy" by drumming up the dangers of the U.S.S.R. Author Adamic himself sees the U.S.S.R. as no particular danger to anyone. He considers it the source of "a new dynamism toward general welfare" rather than of the old dynamism of Pan-Slavic hopes and the Marxian dream...
Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman's right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was "nobody but my husband." Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket) Fitzgerald, Stone Cold Dead in the Market has sold over half a million records. It is climbing into the big ten on the Hit Parade even though it is banned on two networks-NBC and ABC-because murder is nothing to brag about...
...Spanish and Portuguese by Army speed-up techniques, learn to appreciate what Dunne calls "such splendid institutions as the siesta." By last week the Institute had accepted 119 applications, hoped to enroll 250 students before Oct. 1. Biggest source of prospects: such export-minded businesses as the Sperry Corp., Pan American Airways. Tuition: $1,450 (room and board included...
...policy is set and controlled by five separate, sometimes conflicting agencies-the CAB, the U.S. Maritime Commission, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Department of State. Most recent sample of the boners that result: CAB last week blandly certified South Atlantic routes via Brazil to Pan American Airways, Inc. while the State Department was still pressing an uphill fight in Rio de Janeiro for a Brazilian agreement...