Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...long last, Francisco Franco of Spain got the EGA loan he had been seeking. With the air of a man holding his nose and obeying an unpleasant command, ECA announced that it would begin "immediately" to channel to Spanish industries and companies the $62.5 million in ECA funds set aside for Spain by the 81st Congress. Able no longer to ignore the will of Congress, despite its own contempt for the Franco dictatorship, the Administration did its best to make it look as unlike a Marshall Plan project as possible. ECA would send no mission to Madrid, would leave...
...next three years, Abe Brothman fed the apparatus with blueprints and drawings of such top defense projects as high-octane gasoline manufacture, turbine-type airplane engines and chemical handling equipment. The Russians had set up such a good photographic laboratory in the offices of Arntorg, the Soviet trading agency, that Gold could have papers photographed and returned to Brothman within two hours...
...barefoot boy and the pigtailed girl, when children collected bugs and horseshoe nails, licked the eggbeater and looked at stereopticon slides for entertainment, any tailgate medicine spieler ("Get away, boys, you bother me") could hold them spellbound. Even so, only the more daring of the barefoot set got within range of the flares and banjo music; parents felt that the childish brain should be allowed to age at least as long as good whisky before being exposed to such works of the devil...
Boots & Saddle. Earlier generations of U.S. children had been exposed to this sort of thing, of course. More than one house was burned to the ground in the '90s by small boys reading Nick Carter in the attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning...
...three pools provide swimming facilities for about 200 men each day according to Hob Kiphuth, Yale's swimming coach and former director of athletics. One of the three pools is an exhibition pool set in an amphitheater whose almost verticle rows of seats accommodate about 2200. A movable concert partition between the two practice pools allows adjusting of their lengths...