Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's great rice exporters - Burma, Siam, Indo-China - have never recovered from their wartime agricultural breakdown. This crop-year they will be able to export less than one-third the normal prewar figure. No matter how well it is distributed, this food balance sheet adds up to acute shortage. Two countries, Argentina and the U.S., both more prosperous than they were before the war, might alleviate the crisis, Argentina by charging less, the U.S. by eating less...
Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of the Dominion of India, got the royal nod from his cousin, George VI, on his selection of titles to go with his new earldom (TIME, Aug. 25). Henceforth, it was announced in London, he will be known as Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey of Romsey...
...making of westerns, but there is no reason why we should not have a shot at it. As for tremendously bad films about the lives of celebrated musicians, we can turn them out at a pinch, and it may even prove possible to show the reconquest of Burma without enlisting the services of Mr. Errol Flynn...
...speech (ghosted, according to hardened precedent, by his Government ministers), King George outlined parliamentary plans for the coming year. They included routine hopes for increased production and exports, plans to cut the armed forces, to grant independence to Burma, to nationalize the gas industry, and to revamp the criminal code. Tucked in among the expected announcements was one bombshell sentence which hit Tory, peer and commoner alike. "Legislation," said the King in his slightly halting voice, "will be introduced to amend the Parliament...
...nearby St. James's Palace the wedding presents were being laid out and catalogued. Among them were a set of Peking carpets from British expatriates in China, a dressing case fitted in tortoise shell from the city of Paris, twelve wedding cakes from Imperial outposts, some rubies from Burma and a silk nightdress from one Mrs. Clementine Hager...