Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China Press last week: "China's needs remain twofold: 1) aid in the military field ... 2) aid in the economic field. . . . The two needs are interrelated in every sense. . . . This must be as obvious in Washington as it is in Nanking." A hint that other U.S. help might be on the way came last week in a dispatch from Nanking describing negotiations for purchase by China of an undisclosed amount of munitions and 600 surplus transport planes from...
...when they left for their Government offices. Violators of Phibun's decrees were whisked off to "self-improvement centers." When the Japanese took over Siam, Phibun collaborated with them and declared war on the U.S. and Britain. But Chief Political Rival Pridi Banomyong (under the code name "Ruth") helped to organize a Free Siamese underground to help the Allies. In August 1944, Phibun resigned and retired to his country house. After the war, Pridi Banomyong seesawed...
Then, after accepting the baseball writers' Comiskey Trophy for the Rookie of the Year, Jackie climbed into the new Cadillac that Dodger fans had given him at Ebbets Field, and headed for Hollywood. He will star in a movie tentatively called Brooklyn, U.S.A. and help Negro Sportwriter Wendell Smith finish Robinson's "autobiography...
Bloch had grown up in Geneva-a Geneva seething over the Dreyfus affair-the son of a clock merchant. He studied music in Brussels, Munich and Paris, but when his father's business went bad, he came home to help. As a child, he learned from his father the Jewish lore and emotional melodic strains that permeate his music, but he dislikes being classified, as he often is, as a racial composer...
...shipyard-building brothers, George and Herman Brown (TIME, Feb. 24). They advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent Texas Eastern $1,350,000 (which they have gotten back) and brought in Reginald Hargrove, a veteran United Gas Corp. executive. Among themselves the founders and Dillon, Read divided 150,000 shares of common stock. They paid...