Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arms Are Extra. The cost of hitting hard, Hoffman declared, would be $4,280,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This was $730 million less than the $5,010,000,000 spent in ECA's first twelve months of operation ending April 1. For the three-month gap from April 1 to the start of the new fiscal year on July i, Hoffman asked an additional $1,150,000,000. These figures did not include military aid to Greece and Turkey, nor aid to China, which is now on a "day-to-day" basis...
...Washington the Army handed out a flamboyantly written 32,000-word report from Douglas MacArthur's headquarters -the story of a Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
...Japan grew 80% of its own food. Sugar from Formosa and soybeans from Manchuria made it almost completely self-sufficient within its empire. With only the home islands, it can provide 70% of its prewar level of 2,160 calories a day. The growing population will make it very hard to push self-sufficiency in food above...
...inhabitants of Buenos Aires soon found out what a newspaper-less city is like. Business was hard hit. Rumors (including one that President Perón had resigned his office) replaced legitimate news...
...acid test facing Prime Minister St. Laurent was the general election expected some time this year. Last week Louis St. Laurent received notice that the struggle would be bitter and hard-fought. In a by-election in the Quebec riding of Nicolet-Yamaska, his Liberal Party candidate was beaten in a surprise turnover by a Progressive Conservative (Tory...