Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some place, throws some socks and shaving stuff into a bag and starts. Eighteen months ago he sold his business (chocolate-covered cherries) and decided to see some of the world, maybe combine traveling with a little business. Ed asked the Soviet embassy in Washington for a visa to Russia...
...took a lot of "fooling around" to get that visa, but Ed got it. "I told them," Ed said, "that I wanted to go there and buy a lot of Russian vodka, $2,000,000 worth, and sell it to the people in the U.S. I told them it wouldn't hurt Russia a bit." Two months ago Ed left for Europe with a bunch of Indianapolis businessmen on a tour sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and when he got to Helsinki, he decided to use his visa...
...Nine months of winter, and three months of inferno" is an old yet apt Spanish adage. Those few Americans who braved climatic considerations, and waded through the red tape to obtain a visa to a dictatorship, found themselves in the hottest (121 degrees and higher was not unusual), dryest, poorest, and most isolated of Europe's states...
...delegation was organized last spring by a group called the American Festival Committee, with headquarters in a dingy building on Bleecker St. in downtown Manhattan. People wishing to attend the festival had to make arrangements through this committee; the Hungarian government was unusually willing to approve all visa applications made through the group. Anyone who wished to go to the festival and could play his way was welcome--the only restriction was that no purely "observers" were allowed, all had to be members of the delegation...
...after this meeting, one of the girls who had voted for the motion of censure found her passport ripped apart. She had returned to her room after going out for a cup of coffee, and discovered her passport lying outside of her suitcase. The pages stamped with her Hungarian Visa, her U. S. Military Permit, and her identification photograph and been torn...