Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over the East River. Carrying one-way traffic on each, the two decks are 36 feet wide all the way except through the toll plaza near the middle of the bridge. The actual length of the main span over the Mystic River is 800 feet...
...East Asia's unrest, which World War II accentuated, would have developed even in the absence of Communism, he said, although the Communists have stepped into supply leadership...
...pressures of population in the Far East are an important reason for the misery of the people and their discontent, Thomas said, and the problem of population control in these countries is a crucial one. The East's present great desire for mechanization will not succeed in raising standards of living unless the resulting population increase is curbed, he stated...
...added that the industrialization of East, Asia could pose a real threat to the standard of living of the Western nations...
...Invasion of Yugoslavia from the East is unlikely," the Marshal stated. "Continued economic pressure will be applied against us, but not military aggression...