Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three scholarships, worth a total of $850, have been awarded by the Harvard chapter of the American Veterans Committee to natives of the Far East who will study at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences next year, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, chairman of the AVC, announced last night...
...great year next season," this character began. "If Lowenstein can put on twenty pounds this summer, and if Moffie doesn't break a leg, our backs ought to be among the snapplest in the East, but of course with Godin out of the picture, I don't know where Stuffy will find another real stopper on the firing line. As for Bolles, of course, we don't need to worry--Jaakko has some very fine young freshmen coming up, you know...
Despite the barriers to its pictures abroad, Hollywood could take heart in another statistic: 72% of the feature films on the world's screens were U.S.-made. The U.S. share of showings dipped lowest (47%) in the Far East, where stiff competition was offered by British distributors and a revived Japanese film industry. It was highest, at 98%, in British Honduras. The rate in the U.S. itself...
Nowhere had theaters sprung up in such large numbers as in India and Pakistan, which had increased their picture houses 43.3%. Italy and Germany spawned the largest increases in Europe, where Soviet Russia still boasted the biggest total of movie theaters (12,614). Japan led in the Far East...
...missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization of a $100,000,000 bond issue, the legislators will also consider a provision for constructing a 90 mile toll turnpike across the state...