Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abbot Otani is chief of the East Hog Won-Jt Buddhist Sector of Japan, which embraces six million members...
Istanbul is a symbol of Turkey in its dizzying mixture of progress and backwardness, its perpetual anxiety over war and its hope for a modern future. "This country," says one Marshall Planner, "is the Wild West in the Middle East...
Cement pillboxes dot the rolling plains of Thrace; piles of stone lie by the roadsides for emergency roadblocks. From the border of Bulgaria in the west to Ararat in the east, Turkish riflemen stand guard. Almost half a million men are in the armed forces-a staggering burden for a poor country of 19 million people. Defense takes 40% of Turkey's budget...
...would like nothing better than to [find] on the New York Stock Exchange [securities] of waterworks in South America, electric light and power companies in the Middle East. [But] how can we expect [others] to amend their [restrictive] laws toward American capital, knowing that investment and investors at home are discriminated against and discouraged...
...Government to conduct a survey of Japan. Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman