Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominions "down under," where the invader was stopped uncomfortably close to the home grounds, there has been less talk of world order and much more of immediate security. In their Canberra Agreement last January, Messrs. Fraser and Curtin proposed to build a great Pacific arc around New Zealand and Australia, pledged a common, regional policy within the Commonwealth...
...small, smart New Yorker (arc. 205,000) last week cast a stone at the famed, fabulously successful Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000). The missile at once set up widening ripples in the U.S. publishing pond. The New Yorker's irascible, bristle-topped Editor Harold W. Ross (and his co-editors) sent a bristling letter to contributors, told them that the New Yorker would no longer allow the Digest to reprint any New Yorker material. Reasons...
...January midday sun poured down on Monrovia's Matilda Newport Square, named for Liberia's Joan of Arc. Sweat trickled down 20,000 Liberian backs, stood in heavy drops on the foreheads of notables who were clustered in the shade of a palm-leaf booth. Five little girls in white-frilled ginghams held wreaths emblazoned with the names of Liberia's five counties. Six brass bands blared hard and the Liberian National Choir waited its turn. The tiny African Republic, founded for freed slaves from the U.S., was ready for the inaugural of its 17th President...
...Arc of Security. The primary aim was to establish a "permanent zone of interest" over an arc of islands stretching from Timor to Western Samoa. The great half-circle includes New Guinea, the Solomons, the New Hebrides. The Commonwealths down under want to make sure that an enemy will never again get as close to Australia as the Japanese did in 1942. Australia and New Zealand propose to police the area within the arc, pay part of the costs of a standing force if other interested nations will collaborate. Others affected: the U.S., The Netherlands, France, Portugal, Great Britain...
Days of Work. At week's end Berlin could take stock of the damage; Stockholm and London in turn sifted the reports. In a great arc sweeping from the industrial electric city of Siemensstadt in the west through the heart of the city to the sprawling factories and workers' dwellings of Pankow in the northeast, nearly a third of the city lay in ruins. Fire had accounted for 90% of the damage...