Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, en route to Yalta, Harry Hopkins had talked to Foreign Minister Georges Bidault about "internationalized bases." He had received a bland reply: "French bases are at Allied disposal now. For the future what we do with our bases is between us and our colonies. If bases are internationalized, it must be reciprocal, which would also include such places as Pearl Harbor...
...week's end General Chou emplaned for Yenan. In the Communist capital, for the first time since 1934 a Party Congress was gathering; momentous decisions might be reached. When would Chou En-lai return to Chungking? Darkly he answered: "Not so soon...
...said to have switched to support of France. Arab solidarity in Cairo might mean full independence for the two states, but France and Britain would have to be reckoned with. The stake of the British Empire was emphasized when Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, en route home from Yalta, spent three days in Cairo...
Engine Design. Since it has only one moving gear (the compressor and turbine, mounted on the same shaft), the jet en gine needs little oil. The plane needs no warmup, is ready to fly 30 seconds after the motor starts. The pilot, relieved of worries about oil pressure, fuel mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail...
...TIME has come to be such a truly international magazine (now that we are publishing special editions on every continent except Antarctica) that stories based on TIME are appearing in such unlikely papers as Yi Shih Pao of Chungking-En Son Dakika of Turkey, Min Juo Jih Pao of Nanning, Le Combattant (Journal Officiel de I'Association des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre du Maroc) published in Casablanca-and even in papers like the Berliner Borzen-Zeitung, Ncues Wiener Tagblatt and the Rheinische-Westfalische Zeitung (which pick up the news from TIME's Stockholm Edition...