Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major portion of the rubber and the tin on which the U. S. depends. There is no other present source from which the U. S. can get an adequate supply of these necessities, particularly rubber (see p. 73). With the prospect of victorious dictatorships in control of Europe, Asia and Africa, the U. S. would have to decide whether it could then afford to be cut off from its supply of these strategic materials. However the U. S. decision goes, it will be serious, and may well be made on short notice...
...course of this cultural marathon Persia had ups & downs. She was conquered successively by the Greeks, Arabs and Mongols; she was sideswiped by nearly every artistic bandwagon that rumbled through Europe and Asia. But though her artists copied Genghis Khan's Chinese painters, Greek sculpture and the primitives of 14th-Century Italians, they made their Persian versions as characteristically Persian as an Isfahan carpet. The Persians concentrated on decoration, distorted their figures and landscapes into semi-abstract patterns, prized neatly filled space more than neatly copied nature...
...family of primates called man reached human status in Asia, Africa, or Europe (possibly in all three), came relatively late to North America. Scattered fossils of individuals-notably the famed "Minnesota Maid" who apparently fell or was thrown into a Glacial Period lake -have been dated as having lived 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. But even this modest antiquity has been denied by the Smithsonian Institution's doughty Ales Hrdlicka. Until recently the earliest known American "culture" was that of mysterious Folsom Man, whose first tools and campsites were encountered near Folsom, N. Mex. No remains...
Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, believes that Emerson is an excellent choice for the post, for "he is skilled in the problems of colonial and backward nations. His book, 'Malasia,' is an authoritative study of the British and Dutch possessions in South East Asia. Emerson is genuinely interested in the post...
...pick it up? She probably could. Britain and France would be able to offer only limited interference. Since many U. S. experts consider the Philippines untenable in war, it is highly unlikely that the Pacific Fleet would care to contest an Indies grab. The U. S. people, knowing that Asia is a long way off, feel that it is not up to them to defend the Dutch Queen's property. Japan is unquestionably banking on that point of view as heavily as Hitler used to bank on British "appeasement...