Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years...
...decision seesawed in the balance, the Chinese soldiers fought desperately for their desperately needed rice. Two years ago they had driven the Japanese out of this sector. This time they meant to hold. But Hunan's battle was only a minor incident in the great struggle of Asia for rice...
...Yellow River and west of the Peking-Nanking line; 4) withdraw from South China and Indo-China; 5) abandon the southward drive. Nor was this all. Am bassador Nomura further was to seek restoration of normal U.S. -Japanese trade relations, Anglo-American recognition in principle of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, U.S. economic assistance to Japan...
Since then botanists have hunted through Asia and bred in the U.S. varieties which will prosper in each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
...egregious piece of misinformation about the British Navy was published last week by the New York Times, which labors scrupulously to satisfy Secretary Knox. It published a picture of a British sailor being invalided home (he came into New York Harbor aboard the Empress of Asia) and captioned it "a bearded British tar whose ship was sunk in the Battle of Crete. . . ." All readers who glanced at the nameband on the sailor's hat (see cut, p. 45) got the erroneous information that H.M.S. Warspite had been sunk in Crete...