Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily column, Cope mixes his propaganda for the agrarian revolution with homely philosophy, simple humor, useful information and unabashed corn. Though most of his columns plow a straight furrow through common farm problems, he also roams as far afield as barbershop quartets and alcoholism. Cope's most celebrated column had nothing to do with farming. It was a sentimental epitaph for his dead Scottie, Mr. Burns...
...errand boy," he said, helping small businessmen to find their way around Washington's federal bureaus. Of course, he knew Harry Vaughan and had entertained him at a few cocktail parties, but he wouldn't think of asking him, or his other friends, to influence Government contracts. Though Harry Vaughan readily admitted their friendship, many of the other "friends" smiling down from Hunt's office walls promptly said that they didn't know him. They pointed out that it was easy to look like a man of distinction and influence in Washington; all anyone...
...blue-chip game of international oil, Mexican Oil Czar Antonio J. Bermudez thought he had an ace in the hole. Though Mexico had kicked out U.S. oil companies in 1938 and seized their properties, he thought they would crawl back if egged on by the State Department...
Mexico clung to its present restrictions on foreign exploration, a loan "would be a disservice" to it and the U.S. Since oilmen guessed that Canada, in five years or so, would be one of the world's major producers of oil, it looked as though the longer Mexico waited, the slimmer would grow its chances of developing its oil lands...
...headlines and parades. Everything, in fact, is so crowded and cluttered (including the sound track which now & then goes slightly hoarse) that little room is left for nostalgia. In the midst of the uproar Miss Haver sweats out two whole decades and a dozen styles of dance routines. Though fresh and appealing in her pigtail period, she is never quite convincing as Broadway's toast...