Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China and Russia will be co-owners of the two Manchurian railroads-the Chinese Eastern and the South Manchurian, both built by Russia. (Stalin remarked to Soong: "We haven't had much use of them." Soong's reply: "That wasn't our fault; we didn't guarantee you against the Japs.") Russian soldiers may not use the railroads except to fight Japan. Railway guards will be exclusively Chinese...
...Howard made her living as a pulp writer for ten years. But since marrying and settling down in Winter Haven, Fla. in 1931, her total literary income has been $6.50-for an article in a trade magazine on her favorite thesis of "If you can't write what you want, why write at all?" Her double bonanza did not overwhelm her. Said she: "You never know. I had a feeling this might be my year for making...
...training on Soldiers Field each afternoon under the aegis of Coaches Henry Lamar and Floyd Stahl, the Crimson informals show considerable experience and promise, but reports from New Haven are more favorable. Dick Harlow is expected back next week, and training will speed up upon his arrival...
...refugees came to the U.S. and to Oswego, N.Y., in August 1944. President Roosevelt invited them; Oswego did not. What he intended was that the New World, giving them a haven, should bear its token share of the Old World's refugee burden. As their part of the bargain, Oswego's guests had agreed before sailing (from Italy) to go back...
...Tiny, hard-won Iwo, for weeks a haven for B-29s in trouble on their way home, was now being used as a filling station on the way north from the Marianas to Japan. Result: B-29s stopping at Iwo to take on fuel stepped up their explosives load to a maximum of ten tons...