Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the main battleground of U.S. food production-enormous plains stretching without a relieving ripple beyond vision; rolling prairies, like the heaving surface of the ocean congealed to earth; vast uplands lifting slowly with no barrier but a barbed-wire fence to the terminal barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In good years, this vast food factory poured out some 800 million bu. of wheat, some 2,800 million bu. of corn, 1,200 million bu. of oats, 63 million hogs, 33 million beef cattle, 36 million sheep, 82 million lbs. of milk, 3,200 million lbs. of butterfat...
...Guadalupe, long ago, a peon named Juan Diego beheld a miraculous vision of the Virgin. Near that spot last week, a visionary Mexican industrialist, Antonio Ruiz Galindo, was starting an experiment that may likewise prove miraculous: a factory community, La Ciudad Industrial (the Industrial City). Mexican leaders and U.S. businessmen interested in Mexico are watching closely...
Last week, Brazilian aviation was busting out all over. It took but three planes to start a commercial airline, and stock deals, franchise fights and cutthroat competition recalled the dash, vision and buccaneering spirit of 19th Century U.S. railroading...
Nurse Sapala's top fever lasted less than an hour. Some other physicians were skeptical, recalled that even 108° temperatures had usually injured brain tissue, caused a quick death. Patient Sapala, recovering from the fever, suffered only temporary blurred vision, so far showed no other ill effects from her unusual experience...
Reveille for Radicals is written with burning honesty. The author has glimpsed a vision which is greater than his ability to put it in practical terms. But this vision, which is no less than the revitalization of democracy, explains why Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil calls Reveille for Radicals "a life-saving handbook for the salvation of democracy," and why Philosopher Jacques Maritain calls it "epoch-making...