Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over the Caspian we flew wavetop high. At one point we were within 50 miles of the Russian frontier. We ran across troops on the move at the confluence of the Send and Shah Rivers. A long column of horse-drawn artillery and trucks, two miles long", stretched along both sides of the road in a hairpin bend. Several hundred troops basked in the sun alongside the vehicles. There must have been hundreds more within the trucks. Just outside Kazvin we saw a column of infantry marching up the road. Behind them came carts, piled high with desks, tables, telephone...
...After a hearty lunch (favorite dish: chicken pilaf) he attends to more official business. More often he withdraws to a black Bedouin tent in the backyard of his palace, to receive his chieftains. When he is gay (which happens often), he will take a sheikh into the palace and send him careering through the salons on a bicycle. He loves practical jokes, and keeps a set of distorting mirrors in his palace "so that I can see what my guests are really like...
Swept into office by the biggest majority in modern Argentine history (apparently 304 electoral votes to 72), Presidentelect Juan Peron lost no time getting into action. Though he had still to take the oath and receive the sash of office, he bossed the Government that last week agreed to send some food to Europe (but little for UNRRA), released a blandly conciliatory denial of the U.S. State Department's Blue Book charges, and disavowed all desire of dominating its weaker neighbors...
...prospect, it looked like just another Manhattan debut, of which there are 300 every year. The New York Times did not even send a critic to Carnegie Hall. The Herald Tribune sent its second-stringer, Jerome D. Bohm. He and a tiny audience of ushers and friends of the artist had the 2,800-seat Carnegie Hall to themselves...
Only ten years out of Dartmouth but carefully trained in the business, young Spiegel proved himself a hardworking, fertile-brained therapist. He trimmed the catalogue mailing list, concentrated on selling fewer people more items with big profit margins. Most important, he put sales on a send-no-money basis. Result: Spiegel's started turning profits...