Word: access
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across Europe as he had covered the map of Asia. Leaving Vladivostok in 1920, he returned for a few months to his home in Prague, a free man for the first time in five years. Then he went to Paris and finally London, where for four years he had access to the historical wealth of the British Museum. In 1925 he traveled to Palestine, where he continued first hand his study of the history and politics of the Near and Middle East. From Palestine he came in 1931 to the United States and since 1934 has been the outstanding lecturer...
...politically expedient. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull handed to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and China's Foreign Minister T. V. Soong similar proposals for post-war economic collaboration* based on: 1) Article IV of the Atlantic Charter, providing for equal and free access to the world's raw materials; 2) Article 7 of the Lend-Lease agreement with the United Kingdom, providing for repayment of Lend-Lease materials in such a way as "to promote mutually advantageous economic relations . . . and the betterment of world-wide economic relations...
From A for Access-Panels to W for Work-Benches, the U.S. was stripped clean of its iron & steel. WPB issued its most sweeping curtailment order yet, banning use of the metal after August for practically every civilian use under the sun -more than 400 items...
...Burma, they will have a new front on China's borders. But Jap conquest of Burma is mainly dangerous to the Chinese because of the great new land routes abuilding from India into China. The Japs choked off the Burma Road when they won Rangoon; if they win access to the northern roads, they might all but choke China...
...Access to buildings in which vital defense research and work is being carried on is restricted, and those who do not have the Restricted Access Permit filled out on the back of their Identity Cards may find it difficult to enter even though their business is legitimate...