Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rich Fountain." Had he ever given documents to anyone else? "Yes," said Henry Julian Wadleigh, "on some occasions I gave them to Whittaker Chambers." The courtroom murmured at this buttressing of Chambers' testimony, and Wadleigh seemed to enjoy the sound...
...said that it was all the fault of her boss, William E. Foley, chief of the Foreign Agents Registration Section. Foley (whom she also accused of being furious at her for taking two hours off to get a permanent) had given her the report, asked her to make notes, insisted that she take them to New York to study over the weekend. As for the rest of the data in her handbag-she was so overworked that she had to take things home...
...million, payable in six years. Russia would not claim any additional "German assets" in Austria, but would keep the ones she had already seized. In exchange, the Russians with drew their support of a Yugoslav claim to some Austrian territory and reparations. The Yugoslavs would long ago have given up their claim had Russia not deliberately kept it alive for bargaining purposes...
...Pillar. Black-bearded, burly Ma Pufang, now 46, has been a pillar of anti-Communist strength in the Northwest ever since his troops hurled back the Communists of the Long March in 1934-35. A highhanded but benevolent despot, he has also given his spare, dry, upland Chinghai province (pop. 1,500,000) some of China's best roads, extensive irrigation works and a spectacular reforestation program. Over 13 years he supervised the planting of millions of willow, poplar and acacia seedlings to shade the roads, check riverbank erosion, supply fuel. "Even when I was a little...
Illustrated had given monthly science lessons (at 25? an issue) to the "educated layman"; by last month, 35-year-old Editor John Whiting had enrolled an impressive 531,000 readers in his correspondence course. But right from the start, Science Illustrated had been deep in the red. McGraw-Hill, which aims most of its soberly successful, specialized magazines at comparatively small markets, found it a tougher trick to sell Science Illustrated to mass-market advertisers. All told, staffers estimated that McGraw-Hill had dropped several million dollars on the experiment in science...