Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treasure Trove. The "New Order In Asia" is to Japan what the Monroe Doctrine is to the U. S. The Netherlands Indies comprise the juiciest colonial plum in the world. Only one other area produces more rubber, three others more oil. Japan gets one-quarter of its oil there. The islands export sugar, coffee, quinine, tobacco, copra, spices, cattle, timber, coal, tin, gold, silver-all of which Japan can use. Their 60,727,233 inhabitants are a huge market for Japanese textiles and cut-rate manufactures...
...that event," he added, "the Italian fleet could provide some marine diversion in case of a thrust through Hungary into Rumania, and could hamper the shipment of supplies to the Weygand forces in Asia Minor...
...National Student Union plans to establish a center of uncensored information from the student organizations in the warring countries of Europe and Asia...
...History Department, Chinese 10a will be presented under the title of Cultural History of the Far East rather than under its former designation of Survey of the History of Eastern Asia from Early Times...
When Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king, was feeling low, he crawled on his hands & knees and ate grass. But Nebuchadnezzar also drove the Egyptians out of Asia, conquered Syria, destroyed Jerusalem. Last week Chemists George O. Kohler, W. R. Graham and C. F. Schnabel of Kansas City, Mo. put two & two together. In grass, they said, there is power...