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...Command's 5th Air Division in Morocco. From Britain, an unrevealed number of B50 medium bombers flew to the new bases (see map) described as "under development." ¶The U.S. reached agreement with Saudi Arabia to use its huge U.S.-built Dhahran Airfield for the next five years. Hitherto, the U.S. has had only year-to-year agreements. The field can handle the Air Force's largest strategic bombers, commands the whole Middle East area. ¶ In Washington, the House Armed Services Committee voted more than a billion dollars to the U.S. Air Force for construction...
This kind of advice was being given to frequent callers last week by the Oregon Journal's cooking expert, Mary Cullen. Horsemeat, hitherto eaten as a stunt or only as a last resort, was becoming an important item on Portland tables. Now there were three times as many horse butchers, selling three times as much meat. In the Portland markets, horse sirloins are 35? a pound, while beef is $1.14; horse tenderloins 45?, compared to $1.95-$2.15 for beef. People who used to pretend that it was for the dog now came right out and said it was going...
...dead city, forgotten by the modern world (TIME, Nov. 7, 1949). This time, accompanied by his bride of five days, Anthropologist Fairservis revisited the same mysterious area of southwest Afghanistan. Near the Bolan Pass, the expedition, came across its first big find: 36 sites which yielded pottery of a hitherto unknown type. On the bottom of many of the pieces were mysterious little signs, some 30 different ones, that look as if they might be the beginnings of an alphabet. Some of the sites, Fairservis believes, go back as far as 5000 B.C. Near Kandahar the party discovered pottery goddesses...
There he turned a barn into a $40,000 air-conditioned studio and imported top-notch Hollywood technicians to edit and finish the film. The result: Hobbyist Queeny's first completed movie, Latuko, a 50-minute color documentary about a hitherto unphotographed tribe deep in the equatorial Sudan...
...setting up a long-range program like this, the Crimson Key hopes to encourage the entrance of some 150 exceptional students from hitherto untapped source is in this endeavor the Society has the blessings of administration and alumni. Its members work in close cooperation will Dean Bender, the Admissions Office, and the Associated Harvard Clubs...