Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pass they become medical, veterinary and agricultural assistants or tribal chiefs, and are deemed eligible to look after the Bahutu, the Batwas and the long-horned cattle. The Trusteeship Council, however, thought that more natives should be sent to European universities and the people given a vote. The Belgian report to the U.N. got rather personal at one point in its 382-page, statistics-laden report. It said: "The private life of the Mwami [King] of Urundi left something to be desired when he paid visits to Usumbura [the capital]. Fortunately, his visits are no longer as frequent...
...course, can be much noisier; on warm September days phlox pods explode with a soft pop. The squirting cucumber (Ecballium) of Southern Europe sounds like a cork leaving a champagne bottle, and the tropical sandbox tree (Hura, crepitans) has an orange-sized capsule which "explodes with a loud report...
...emissary from the University of Pennsylvania first sounded Stassen out a day after the G.O.P. convention ended-without indicating what uniyersity he represented. He found Stassen receptive. A week later Penn offered him the presidency. Last week, "after careful consideration," Harold Stassen accepted. He would report for duty next fall, he promised-if he had finished his speaking tour "on behalf of Governor Dewey...
...midyear report last week, the President's Council of Economic Advisers hailed the prospect of bumper crops as the one strong force which "should be of signal aid in checking of inflation." But was it? Thanks to the farm bloc and the Government crop-support program, the answer seemed likely to be no, at least for months to come...
...Sickness. Seven major U.S. airlines (notable exception: Eastern) had been in the red since last October. They got into the black again in May, but still have a long way to go to make up their deficits. Example: United Air Lines, the first of the big carriers to report second-quarter earnings, netted $310,682. But it still lost $3,239,852 for the first half...