Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imperialists-with only 16 million inhabitants?" asked Juan Perón last week in mock amazement. "We haven't gone crazy yet," he added. Argentina's President was assuring a group of Brazilian newsmen that he had no designs on his neighbors. "It has been said that we want to resurrect the old viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata [which included Uruguay, Paraguay and part of Bolivia]. When they say that, I always say: 'We have lots of land and we don't need any more...
...Perón had made time for the interview in one of his busiest weeks. It was Argentina's annual army week, the 133rd anniversary of independence from Spain. There was a three-hour-long parade, followed by wreath-laying ceremonies, honorary reviews and state receptions. The two guests of honor, General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, Brazil's war minister, and Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of U.S. forces in the Caribbean, both got decorations...
...allotment for the armed forces, whose 100,000-odd personnel are South America's best-trained, was a record 1,663,000,000 pesos (about $333 million), more than a fourth of the budget. Since there was no sign of a military threat against Argentina, and since Perón himself disavowed imperialism, what was the money for? Bigger & better parades...
...over in Glasgow, London or Paris for as long as they liked, at no extra charge. American Overseas Airlines, which is now taking U.S. tourists into Germany for the first time since the war, offered a choice of ten "packaged" European tours at a cost of $8 to $18 per day (including meals, hotel, tips, sightseeing, etc.) above plane fare. British Overseas Airways Corp. was pushing a round-the-world trip via Australasia for $1,886 ($93.70 below its regular fare), with stopovers up to one year...
...slung, homemade roadster bodies. On the engine they install a high-compression cylinder head, a dual manifold and a special camshaft. After months of work and $800 to $1,200 spent for parts, they have a racer that will turn up 140 h.p., capable of speeds over 100 miles per hour. They have been clocked at better than 140 m.p.h. at the Southern California Timing Association's Muroc Dry Lake track, a center of U.S. "hot-rod" racing...