Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invitation reached him to visit Mexico. In Mexico's capital, the country's big people flocked around him. He was given a gold key to the city. He fell in with John Ambrose Hastings, a onetime New York State Senator, who was also cutting a wide swath in Mexico. Personable Mr. Hastings, who somehow came to be known to Mexican bigwigs as a U.S. ex-Senator, was promoting a "hundred-million-dollar syndicate," purportedly backed by U.S. cash, to industrialize Mexico. And there was Axel Wenner-Gren with more money...
...last Eastern intercollegiate stations to go commercial, the College station has been on the air for almost two years, having opened its facilities on April 15, 1940. New Swath more College's station is the only one in the East without advertising...
...whirled in from the Northwest, gathering strength as it ran. It powdered San Francisco and Los Angeles with their first snow in ten years, trailed a white swath across the Rockies, roared down upon the Middle West in a furious gale. It blotted out roads, stalled trains, buried cars. It was too big, too dangerous for even wartime censors to keep under their hats. U.S. weather bureaus dropped their gags and signaled warnings of the winter's first big storm to farmers, truckers, pilots, linesmen...
...Confederation of Mexican Workers) is a sprawling, squalling, squabbling, red and red-hot Mexican edition of C. I. O. Under socialistic President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) its million members rode wide and handsome, cutting a fancy swath of strikes with Government approval, also cutting in on the benefits of Cárdenas' expropriations. But meeting last week in Mexico City, the 4,589 delegates to the annual CTM convention were puzzled, disunited, sore. The cause was just one man, Cárdenas' heir, Manuel Avila Camacho, whom the CTM had helped to elect President...
...fishing vessels and a British flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire was put out 30,000 people were homeless and an epidemic threatened...