Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to Columbia for the spring semester, but Secretary Acheson urged him to take on one final mission. This week Envoy Jessup boarded ship in San Francisco for a five-week swing through the Far East to talk to General MacArthur in Japan, visit Korea, Formosa, the Philippines, and end up in Thailand where he will preside over an extraordinary conference of U.S. chiefs of mission in southeast Asia...
...week's end, 14 days after he had received the selection board's revised list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience to the orders of his superiors, 31-Knot Burke, for the first time in his 26-year career, had been stopped cold...
...known detection devices. This week, in its newly published 1949-50 edition, Britain's authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships reported that Russia already has at least 360, and possibly 460, of such submarines in service. Originally Russia expected to have 1,000 Schnorkels in operation at the end of 1951. Jane's doubts Russia's capacity to build fast enough to hit that target, estimates that 750 by end of 1951 is a likelier figure...
Across the Land. By this year, CARE-which had started at war's end with a supply of two million 10-in-1 army rations-had sent 9,000,000 relief packages to Europe and Asia. This Christmas season, CARE offered 18 varieties of packages, ranging from the $13.50 holiday parcel (including one canned Sell's turkey, 8 oz. Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener...
...There has always been and always will be one capital only-Jerusalem the Eternal," cried Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. "Thus it was 3,000 years ago and thus it will be, we believe, until the end of time." Then, bluntly defying the U.N. demand for Jerusalem's internationalization (TIME, Dec. 19), pugnacious Ben-Gurion moved the seat of his government from Tel Aviv to the Holy City...