Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resounding strike call read like a timetable. At 6 a.m. on Dec. 7 the five railway brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) would walk out on the Santa Fe, Rock Island, New York Central, Denver & Rio Grande, Katy, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, 44 other lines. Next day they would quit on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, the Gulf Coast lines, 40 others. By the third day, on 156 roads that carry passengers, food, coal, machinery and mail from New England to California, from Florida to Washington, not a wheel would turn...
...grey Casa Moneda, Chile's new Acting President Geronimo Mendez had ?n important visitor. Out of a borrowed Lufthansa plane at Santiago airport one day last week stepped Brazil's smart, dapper Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, all primed to talk commercial treaties. He had left Rio expecting to confer with President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, had learned of Don Tinto's temporary retirement (TIME, Nov. 17) while en route...
Chief event on the other side of the river is the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Copley-Plaza, complete with three orchestras, Dwight Fiske, and stars from two hit shows. Gene Krupa, Jack Marshard, and Del Rio's rhumba band will play alternately...
...Buffalo, after many a tiff with other comers in the devil-take-the-hindmost new industry, Fleet got his start. He turned out a good trainer (the PT-1), a crack flying boat. When he lost a Navy order (outbid by Martin), he helped organize the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Airline (NYRBA) to use as a market for his flying boats, commercially called Commodores. (He sold the line later to Pan Am, and won himself a reputation in Wall Street...
...first partner (in pre-Hollywood days) was his sister, pert, chic Adele, who left him in 1932 to become Lady Cavendish and live in an Irish castle. The second was Ginger Rogers, who joined him in his second picture, Flying Down to Rio, in 1933. Six years later, just as Adele had left him, so Ginger Rogers departed, to shroud her lyric legs in the toga of a dramatic actress. Astaire tried two new partners: proficient, metallic Eleanor Powell and gaminous Paulette Goddard. Neither Hollywood nor the nation was impressed...