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...Earl Browder, born in Kansas, was the head of the Communist Party USA in the 1930s and early 1940s, and twice ran for president....
...He worked in two mines before setting up Hesco Bastion as a sandblasting company with his redundancy money. Its products were used in the 1991 Gulf War....
...At times over the past two years, the New York Times has seemed to be a bastion under siege....
...Networks planned for parts of the USA, particularly California, and some Arab countries could follow suit. The Shinkansen, though, is no longer the brightest star in Japanese rail’s firmament....
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