Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...
...offer you the Mexican fleet if Argentina needs reinforcements to defeat the English wherever they may be found. Because what are we? Brave cats or miserable mice? At your service. Signed: Juan Charrasqueado [Scarface John-Mexico's man-in-the-street and currently the subject of a popular song...
Boston's popular, ex-convict Mayor James Michael Curley, addressing the United Spanish War Veterans, plumped for MacArthur for President, but doubted that his man would make it. Both parties, his honor averred, want "a passive man who would appease Wall Street and the C.I.O.," so they shipped MacArthur overseas "to destroy...
...still prefer magic to medicine; hence the popular excitement about the "wonder drugs." Even some doctors have become a little overenthusiastic. Dr. John H. Talbott, of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and the Buffalo General Hospital, sounded this warning in the current issue of the New York State Journal of Medicine: "It is only human to minimize the untoward reactions of a new therapeutic substance in the enthusiasm of discovering and subjecting it to clinical trial." Dr. Talbott listed, in detail, the wonder drugs' dangers...
...weeks, sales for the week ending Feb. 14 fell below the corresponding 1947 period. They dropped most in clothing. In New York City the garment trades, which should have been hustling with summer business, were hard hit. Some 10,000 had been laid off or put on part time. "Popular"-priced dress manufacturers reported that their clothes were not popular at all. They blamed the "unreasonable" prices charged at the mills for their cloth. But many mills reported that they were booked solidly through June. Nevertheless, many a merchant thought that high-priced textiles were as shaky as high-priced...