Word: pur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restricted to products which will help France rebuild its economy: e.g., machine tools, spare parts, raw materials, etc. Furthermore, traders are limited to shipments weighing not more than five tons, nor worth more than $20,000. Larger shipments will continue to be handled by the French Government's pur chasing missions...
...aircraft and snowshoe, agents pur sued two draft dodgers in Alaska, finally caught them at the base of Mt. McKinley...
Last week Brazil was watching these Japanese settlers with more than usual suspicion. In recent weeks there had been an epidemic of fires in the Amazon rubber regions, enough to cause Governor Alvaro Maia of Amazonas State to make a trip to the Purús Valley district to investigate. The first fires were caused by settlers burning brush and seemed purely accidental; Brazilians and Japanese together put them out. But from then on the conflagrations grew in number and seriousness. Recently fires broke out in the highland regions of the western rivers, where some of Brazil's best...
...valley of the Amazon, in the region of the Purús River, a colony of Japanese settled some 20 years ago with money from their government to start a jute industry. Jute proved a failure, so the settlers switched to rice. When rice did not pay off, they planted pepper, clearing large areas of the jungle. Suspicious minds thought they might be preparing airfields for an attack on the Panama Canal. The outbreak of World War II found some 20,000 Japanese scattered over some 2,700 square miles of the Amazon basin. In the course of the first...
...Above all, while we could quickly cut down pur program, it would be utterly impossible to improvise troops on short notice. A year or more is required to build fighting divisions...