Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since police state investigations have not yet found wide spread approval in America, the bill seems designed only to satisfy the political consciences of its sponsors. If it passes, the legislators can sit back on their haunches, content that their state, at least, does not legally harbor Communism. But "I Told You So" legislation, satisfying as it is to its backers, has little positive value...
When Pearl Harbor cut the U.S. off from Malaya's natural rubber, only the Government was big enough to rear the $700 million, 51-plant synthetic industry. But getting the Government out was not so easy as getting it in. Harry Truman could not get private companies to bid anything approaching a fair value for the plants. The reason was that natural rubber had come back, was cheap (25? a lb.), and was so superior to most synthetics that 12 of the Government's remaining 29 plants were shut down...
...Thornton is now 48 years old. He enlisted in the cavalry in 1927, began breaking Army mounts, during his first year broke all his toes, both feet and one knee. In 1937, having been demoted several times, Pop left the Army but re-enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor. During the Battle of the Bulge, he won a Bronze Star for charging a house full of Germans, capturing 14. He finished the war at a sort of halfway stage-as a corporal...
...night by international telephone. "This business needs me," he says. His name in Spanish means "wolf"-"lone wolf," he explains with relish. Evenings, he says, when the last of the day's 500 cables have been answered, "I like to walk alone from my office to the harbor. There I can sit on the edge of a pier, gaze at the lapping waves, and think about the future of sugar...
...support for KEEP, and half his time in Japan supervising it. He has already spent half his lifetime there. A teacher of economics at St. Paul's until 1941, he refused to leave Japan on the eve of World War II, and was taken into custody after Pearl Harbor. Repatriated on the exchange ship Gripsholm in 1942 he joined the U.S. Army and eventually served as a lieutenant colonel on MacArthur's G-2 staff. While never a formally constituted missionary, he knows the Japanese as few missionaries do. He has realized that the Japanese, a naturally religious...