Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if you realize what kind of "Commie prop" you are publishing? The Vanishing Island, which was seen by 75,000 in Pakistan alone and has created a sensation as it has toured the countries of Asia, has received unfair treatment at your hands...
...Vanishing Island does not make the U.S. a laughingstock in Asia and the Middle East, then I'll eat the remainder of my TIME subscriptions ... I must compliment TIME on its unbiased report...
...railroads and atomic power, while maintaining the expensive Socialist benefits of the Welfare State. Many British products are being priced out of the export market: German Volkswagen are pushing British light cars off U.S. and Swedish roads; Indian and Japanese textiles are flooding former British markets, not only throughout Asia, but in Lancashire itself...
...boom, officials of GATT (the 34-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) reported last week that trade totals for the last six months of 1954 were almost 30% higher than they were in 1950. But two bad practices impede an even greater prosperity, said GATT. Nonindustrial countries (in Asia and Latin America) maintain tariff and quota walls to protect infant manufacturing industries which are in many cases uneconomic. Industrial nations (Western Europe and the U.S.) continue to protect their farmers against imported farm products that are produced more cheaply elsewhere...
...Arciniegas does not ask the question in his Amerigo and the New World, but the reader is bound to. Columbus boldly sailed through the curtain of fear and superstition that had kept men from trying the dread Atlantic crossing. But he died believing that he had reached Asia, never accepted the fact that the New World was really another continental land mass. The first man to name it the New World was the Florentine navigator and businessman Amerigo Vespucci; at least, according to Author Arciniegas, he also reached the mainland before Columbus.* Arciniegas has given...