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...Glover, once a switchman himself, could still read a red signal when he saw it. Within nine hours, he called an end to the strike on the Great Northern, the Chicago Great Western, the Denver & Rio Grande Western and the Western Pacific...
Many Latin American governments responded to President Harry Truman's first statement on Korea by offering their cooperation. Argentina's Juan Peron rose to the occasion by calling on the Chamber of Deputies to complete the long-delayed ratification of the 1947 Rio Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. The pact was swiftly approved...
When the World Bank promised last December to lend $12,500,000 for a big hydroelectric project on the Rio Lempa, Salvadoreans agreed to raise another $5,006,000 themselves. To the government of tiny El Salvador (pop. 2,500,000), which had never tried it before, floating an internal loan looked like a precarious business. At its request, the World Bank sent in a bond-marketing expert, balding, energetic Norman M. Tucker...
...model of indelicacy, intimidation and _ revolting brutality," snapped Rio's leading conservative newrpaper Correio da Manhã. "A tremendous blow to the Good Neighbor-policy ... an unwarrinted set of interference," cried Colombia's Foreign Minister Evaristo Sourdis. While a crowded Chamber chorused "Muito bem-hear, hear," Brazilian Deputy Plinio Barreto boomed: "For reasons of demagoguery, electoral expediency or exhibitionism, Senator Gillette has roused an anti-Brazilian movement in the U.S." A Nicaraguan cartoonist drew Senator Gillette stripping Central America's coffee trees to their roots with a thin, blue blade...
...When U.S. envoys to ten South American countries met in Rio de Janeiro in March they concluded that...