Word: welled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portly gentleman on Boston's Beacon Hill sent off a consignment of Havana cigars to Britain. In Chicago Mrs. Herman Pierce was preparing a Christmas parcel for the daughter of her late father's niece in Germany. Mrs. Pierce and her factory-worker husband were not well off. But "we can do without a little," she explained, "to help them a lot. We're all here on earth together...
...packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world where Christmas was cherished. Some 30,000 of them went to Japan, which had the brightest holidays since the war, with gay, Oriental Santa Clauses smiling in front of well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from the store counters because she could not afford to pay the high prices for the fine new wares. "Receiving gift from complete stranger," muttered a Japanese artist last week, "teaches biggest...
...pine-paneled, air-conditioned office, Eugenio Garza, president of Monterrey's big Cuauthémoc Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...modern style of the school's eight other buildings. Between classes, blue-sweatered members of the Borregos (Rams), Tecnológico's U.S.-style football team, watched builders at work on a stadium that will eventually seat 45,000. In the 20,000-volume library and well-equipped laboratories, other students were busy on courses from elementary bookkeeping to advanced engineering...
...India, things were not going at all well for the Maharaja of Baroda. His 250 servants went out on strike for higher wages and union recognition...