Word: salina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ingram, Negro actor who played "De Lawd" in the movie version of Green Pastures, was picked up in Manhattan for violation of the Mann Act. The charge: importing a 15-year-old white high-school sophomore from Salina, Kans., for a weekend in New York (Rex had made the plane reservation for her, and she had given the family the slip by telling them that she was going shopping in Topeka). When the 53-year-old actor heard that he might be taken back to Kansas City for trial, he cried: "But I don't want...
Suggestible. In Salina, Kans., an Air Force private drew You Don't Belong Here from the post library, shortly went AWOL...
...domestic economy. It was still geared for export. Its pipelines ran down to the sea instead of to home markets in the big inland cities. A new refinery outside Mexico City would soon ease the capital's shortage, but others had yet to be built in Monterrey, Salamanca, Salina Cruz...
...cities or areas were as well off as Salina, Kans., which had meat for about 30% of its people. Waterbury, Conn, and Reading, Pa. had no fresh meat at all. On the heaviest food shopping day of the week, Indianapolis had an average of only two ounces of meat for each of its citizens...
Next morning, in sultry Salina Cruz on the Pacific, local delegations visited Aleman. Labor wanted the port reconditioned; salt producers, more electrification ; the peasants' league, irrigation and roads. To all of them he said he hopes, as President, to do something about such problems. Said Candidate Aleman to U.S. correspondents with him: "I invite you to come back to this region with me three years from now so that you can see ... how the country has developed...