Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million kitty, Kennan argued, would permit a start on the only dynamic policy now proposed from any source-a systematic interference with Communist organization of East Asia. Obviously, it would need privacy and finesse in application, which the discretionary feature of the Republican amendment would make possible...
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a tough, imperialistic warrior shogun, was the first Japanese to dream of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. As an anchor for his international conquests, Hideyoshi chose Osaka, built a castle there in the latter part of the 16th Century. Hideyoshi and Osaka got along fine, and ever since then Osaka's merchants have done their best to keep alive his spirit. They gambled when the gambling was good, hedged only when they had to. They became and remain to this day the financial lords of Japan...
...left only 10% of its factories working. Now, four years later, Osakans already have built 100,000 new dwellings; 9,300 factories are back in operation, sending steel pipe to Arabia, chinaware to the U.S., locomotives to Russia and Siam, textiles to Nigeria, Hong Kong, Pakistan and the Middle East...
Osaka, which is Japan's No. 1 commercial city, grew naturally with the progressive expansionism of her hustling merchants. Nagoya, industrially the child of the Greater East Asia War, grew artificially, by military fiat. Fifty-five-year-old Junji Hattori, manager of a Mitsubishi plant in Nagoya, put it this way: "When the military sticks its nose into civilian affairs, it makes horrible mistakes. Look at us now-no money, no initiative, no incentive. I'm afraid Nagoya's flower has bloomed and withered. Whether new buds will appear, only time will tell...
...every problem that came his way. As early as 1943, Mackenzie King told intimates that St. Laurent was the best choice to succeed him as head of the government. When King, after 21 years as Prime Minister, stepped down last November, St. Laurent moved into his office in the East Block of the Parliament Buildings...