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* Rous” i e Nazis are already preparin,,. tild up concerns, car- tels and bus...sses in South America, Mexico, Switzerland and Spain, to win thcir way back into power in the international financial world. So far, the United States has discovered in South America alone 654 spearheads Aft by Frankl ‘> Roowvelt, Its ki ping is nov “"y hands, and, under the adminis..ation of Presi- dent Truman, it must and will guide the relations of our country with the republics of South and Central America, The principle of the Good Neigh- of Axis economic penctration. We bo hey i e are running against many a stone tT policy imposes upon us the s, wall in trying to get at the German obligation to help the Argentine pco- a= § economic outposts. ple overthrow the Fascist regime and a The policy of the Good Neighbor Te-establish democracy among a peo- oT i was one of the many valuable legacics _ ple who love freedom as we do. a? Wea POOR? ‘ Just Try to Say Ic! Ti he following paragraph is the standard test given applicants eRe for jobs as radio announcers. Read it clearly and without mistakes ai ~ in 20 seconds and you have an above-average diction! . = I bought a batch of baking powder and baked a batch of bts- ond we. euits. I brought a big basket of biscuits back to the bakery and ay baked a basket of big biscuits. Then I took the big basket of bdis- cuits and the basket of big biscuits and mixed the big biscuits with the basket of biscutts thal was next lo the big basket and pul t @ bunch of biscuits from the basket into a box. Then I took the j ne box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer and biscuit basket and 1 brought the basket of biscuits and the box of mixed biscuits and the biscuit mixer to the bakery and opened a tin of sardines. Brave Defiance Hi. otels in the United States seldom have a thirteenth floor, yet the number thirteen is believed by many to be the lucky number of this country. Perhaps it was to defy Old World superstitions that our fore- fathers used thirtcen in so many ways. Or perhaps the Thirteen Original Colonies inspired them. At any rate, in our first national flag the symbolic use of the number thirteen appcared as thirteen stars and thirteen stripes. In 1789, exactly thirtecn years aftcr we declared our independence, the first President, Gcorge Washington, was elected, In the National Coat of Arms, the syin- bolic use of the number thirteen is at its zenith—thirteen stars above iam the eagle in the crest, these encircled by thirteen smal? clouds; thirteen = a feathers on each of the cagle’s legs; thirteen arrows in one talon, and an 1 olive branch with thirteen leaves and thirteen olives in the other; thirteen letters—E Pluribus Unum—on the scroll in the cagle’s beak. And blaz- oned jon the eagle's breast is a shield composed of thirteen heraldic pat- terns?