Word: inspection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week Arana drove out to Lake Amatitlan, twelve miles south of Guatemala City, to inspect a store of government arms. When he started back, gunmen trapped his car in the middle of a narrow, arched bridge, then opened up with machine guns. Arana and two companions were killed...
...band of farsighted Nutmeggers had plans for that territory. For $1,200,000 they bought title to these 3,000,000-plus acres of Ohio land from the state.* Then, in 1796, they sent a survey party, led by burly, action-loving General Moses Cleaveland, into the wilderness to inspect the prize...
Bull-headed Ben rolled up his sleeves. Month after month, he led Whirlaway around like a puppy dog, let him inspect the inside rail, sniff the starting gate, look over the stands. Now & then, Ben would stop to let the horse nibble at some grass. Whirlaway visited the paddock so often that it began to seem like a second home. Gradually the addled horse seemed to realize that there was nothing about a race track that was going to hurt...
...naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect TVA and Vanderbilt University's Institute for Brazilian Studies...
...moldering phalanstery did not know quite what to do with his acquisition. He could always wreck it for the lumber. But he had an idea that it might become a tourist attraction: it seemed like the kind of thing a vacationing capitalist might spend two bits to inspect...