Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador. Georgi Nikolayevitch Zarubin had never been in Canada before, but he was no stranger to North America. As an engineer, he helped run the Soviet Exhibit at the New York World's Fair, then went home to head up the Kremlin's North American department. With him to Canada he brought his wife, their 14-year-old son Victor, six trunks, twelve suitcases and the 65-volume Soviet Encyclopedia (Moscow's official compendium of information about the U.S.S.R.). After the barest formalities he settled down to run Ottawa's Soviet Embassy. Under a Minister...
...Story. In New Britain, Conn., Ralph Prims met a man with a dog, claimed the dog was his own. "Prove it," said the stranger. Holding a match in front of the dog's mouth, Prims said: "Blow...
...Stranger still was the case of the U.S. The country which had been officially taught to hope to the last that it would not have to fight had gone into the war on a dollar basis. On the theory that it could buy its way out of trouble, the U.S. was throwing its wealth and production on the side of the Allies when the Jap struck at Pearl Harbor...
...Bulletin, always known for small type and small starting salaries, is no stranger to bigness-it has the biggest presses in the U.S., biggest home delivery, some of the biggest executive salaries in the business. But the editorial Big Stick is still a stranger to the biggest evening newspaper...
...hope that the Edison market price would bounce up, A.L. & T. strategists looked around for a sound citizen to head the Edison setup. Their eye fell on tough, diplomatic Prentiss M. Brown, no stranger to Michigan public utilities. Before election to Congress in 1932, he spent seven years as counsel for northern Michigan's Edison Sault Electric...