Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of keeping up relations with the national parent organization, the American Student Union, is not so acute. Only the Marx-Stange group will be acceptable to the ASU or will consider membership in it an asset. So it appears likely that this part of the Union, even in defeat, would remain the official HSU. The pros and cons of membership in the national body have been fully debated in past years, and the present crisis over foreign policy can add nothing to what has already been said...
Wendall Hastings '35 took a Red Cross First Aid course before going to France, which proved an invaluable asset, since often after a severe bombing the Americans were the first on the scene with no doctors within miles...
These dangers do not make a liability of the $7,200,000 which Secretary of State Seward paid for Alaska in 1867. Alaska would still be there as a danger if Mr. Seward had not bought it. U. S. possession of it is a great strategic asset and $7,200,000 is not much more than the cost of a modern destroyer. Lying close to the great-circle course from northern Asiatic ports to the U. S., Alaska is a base from which U. S. submarines and aircraft can operate against the flank of any invader...
...also a strategic economic asset. Since the U. S. bought it, the territory has exported about $2,000,000,000 in fish, furs, gold, etc. and its 70,000 inhabitants (half white, half Indian) have no more than scratched its natural resources...
...last week in its first big-time assignment. Gesticulating in front of its highly sensitive lenses were such precious cinema properties as Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie, but 20th Century-Fox accountants in back offices well knew the unpublicized camera might prove to be the most valuable asset...