Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisscrossed the crowded streets, as passengers happily shouted campaign cries and drivers leaned heavily on their horns, all drenched with the celebrated spirit of aloha, that flavorsome. catchall Hawaiian term that means peace, warmth, kindness, hello and goodbye, and good luck. And this time, even aloha had an added special flavor injected by the general awareness that Hawaii was on the threshold of a new epoch, sharpened by the fact that there were 81 different elective offices at stake-in the state legislature (25 in the senate, 51 in the house), in the U.S. Congress (two in the Senate...
Governor Quinn's promise of land reform-workable or not-points up the fact that Hawaii's special problems lie in its great distance from the mainland and in its own peculiar island geography. Tiny (604 sq. mi.) Oahu is already hopelessly overcrowded (pop. 449,910), not only by the native population, mainlanders and tourists, but by Hawaiians from the other islands, who head for the city as agricultural mechanization cuts down the labor force (e.g., the sugar industry now employs 17,000 workers as compared with 55,000 in 1932). A system of state parks and development...
Testing the Fakes. The mass counterfeiting of British money was an audacious Nazi trick with a double purpose: to undermine British currency and to finance Gestapo operations abroad. For special Section 6-F-4 of the Reich Security Office, it proved to be a tough job. It took top German engravers seven months to get a satisfactory plate made (the figure of Britannia gave them particular trouble), and still longer to match the bluish rag paper that the real notes were printed on. Dates and serial numbers were carefully checked against real ones. At last came the test. A Gestapo...
Soon a full-fledged counterfeiting plant was set up in isolated Block 19 of Sachen-hausen concentration camp under the supervision of SS Officer Bernhard Kriiger. His team of some 160 inmates, mostly Jews once employed in printing and banking, got special rations and good treatment. By early 1943 the Sachenhausen presses were turning out 250,000 bogus British notes each month...
Since peace returned to Lebanon, Moghabghab has never traveled alone in the mountain regions, always packed a gun. But last week was a special occasion. As the President's motorcade started up the steep final hill to his mountaintop palace, Moghabghab's car, just behind it, rounded the bend. Among the hundreds of Druses lining the road, shouting and cheering, someone recognized their old enemy. Within seconds, Moghabghab's car was surrounded. His driver leaped out, ran off to attract the attention of General Adel Chehab, commander in chief of the army, who was just...