Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to his capital, La Paz, after a visit to Brazil went President Enrique Peñaranda of Bolivia last week, his face wreathed in the most satisfied smile any Bolivian President has worn in years. In his pocket were trade agreements just concluded with his big neighbor to the east. The chief prize: Bolivian rights to use the Brazilian port of Santos as a free port, thus gaining an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean...
...Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please don't expound too much on my cruising the Chicago River in my outboard motor boat...
...near future." Besides "extremely important units of British and Imperial troops," there was in this theater a Greek army "fully equipped with the latest weapons and totaling 30,000 men. Supplies are pouring in from Egypt. It can now be revealed that General Montgomery recently paid a visit to Syria and inspected various bases...
...precision bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force paid their first visit to the Ruhr. They found and destroyed the carefully camouflaged plant at Hüls where the Germans manufactured a fifth of their synthetic rubber. On other days they flew into northeastern Germany and into Occupied France, had weather trouble and less luck with their ground targets. But against their secondary target, they had better luck: in two great air battles over Germany they reduced the German fighter force by nearly 100 planes...
...civil affairs under General Dwight Eisenhower, who, by his own admission, is no politician, U.S. Minister Robert Murphy plays a pretty free hand. He has consistently misinformed Washington, and perhaps himself, on the strength and significance of De Gaullism. When Washington this week announced that General Giraud would soon visit America, it was further evidence of where official U.S. sympathy...