Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scholarly Alcide de Gasperi has one hobby: mountain climbing. But no rock wall he ever encountered gave him the trouble he experienced last week in forming a new government for Italy...
...Kalgan, their prize of the civil war, the Communists can put their backs against Soviet-dominated Mongolia and Siberia, their faces toward Manchuria and North China. The old city guards the Great Wall at Nankow Pass, which is to China what the Khyber Pass is to India...
Under capable, confident Lieut. General Tu Li-ming, the Nationalists had covered 210 miles from the Great Wall in less than three weeks and at the cost of a few hundreds casualties. Communist opposition had been almost nonexistent. The chief delay occured at Mukden's outskirts, where General Tu waited for final arrangements to be made with the Russians...
...Government financial institutions last week got transfusions of fresh blood. To the $10,000-a-year chairmanship of the Export-Import Bank, fellow Missourian Harry Truman named boyish, earnest William McChesney Martin Jr., 39, onetime Wonder Child of Wall Street. The $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1938 to 1941, Martin was drafted into the Army as a private. By war's end he was a full colonel...
...none of this bullishness has done U.S. investors any good. There is no way they can trade Axis dollar bonds in London or Frankfurt. Last week Wall Street buzzed with a rumor: the SEC may soon lift the ban on trading in Axis securities...