Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kabul's bazaars, the oldest in Asia, displayed the same kind of goods they had when Marco Polo stopped off there seven centuries ago. New items had been added. Mostly from the U.S. had come the lawn mowers, baby carriages, perfumes, canned goods...
During the last six months Sherrod has traveled 25,000 miles trying to keep up with the news in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific. The Pacific-from Attu to Iwo Jima -was his stamping ground in World War II, and we sent him back there after the war on a roving commission to go anywhere his news judgment dictated. His work to date is fairly typical of the postwar trials, tribulations and rewards of a TIME correspondent...
Renunciation. Europe and Asia, more interested than ever in what the U.S. was up to, would watch the renunciation ceremonies in Manila with sidelong intensity. In a temporary grandstand just outside the old, grey Intramuros, in a welter of tropic steam and emotion, there would be excitement which many a straw-hatted Filipino could feel to his heels...
Land & People. The 7,083 islands of Manuel Roxas' steaming land are part of the off-Asia continental shelf, running 1,120 miles from Chinese Formosa in the north to British and Dutch Borneo in the south. Two seasons (wet and dry) make the islands fertile and the climate debilitating; typhoons, snakes and the islands' strategic position make them dangerous. The brown and purple mountains, the beaches like white teeth, the magic water, the hectic sunsets, and above all, the deep, hushed, lusting green of the jungle make it a lotos-land-except to politicians...
...victory is not yet complete. "There are somewhere from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 physically subnormal children on the continent of Europe. There are other millions in Asia. [And] civilization marches forward upon the feet of healthy children." So, in countries that have food, self-sacrifice must go on. Supplies must continue to flow overseas in an uninterrupted stream for months to come...