Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department wants to recognize the Chinese Communists. It would like to do so in concert with the British, who hope that by establishing "normal" relations with Red China they can safeguard Hong Kong, along with their other colonial and commercial interests in the Far East. But, unexpectedly, Secretary of State Dean Acheson has run into stiff opposition from President Truman...
...hoped that, after a half century of democratic American tutelage, the Philippines had been made safer for democracy than any other country in Asia; last week's national elections for a new President and Congress rudely upset that hope. Not everywhere were conditions as bad as in Occidental Negros Province; U.S. correspondents found that in Manila, the capital, balloting on the whole seemed to be honest. But in most other parts of the islands, the elections were marked by fraud, intimidation and violence...
...with Buttons and Bows, which was already a little stale before Bob Hope got a chance to be heard singing it in The Paleface, the precipitant fame of Mule Train was slightly embarrassing to Republic Pictures, which had bought it for a spot in a new movie, Singing Guns. With Mule Train record sales expected to pass the two-million mark, Republic could only hope that its song would not be worn out before Singing Guns (starring Vaughn Monroe) comes along next month...
...last week, Theodora had more than 750 regular customers, including Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. At $1.25 for a five-gallon bottle, Theodora sells 10,000 gallons a month in the Los Angeles area alone and sales are increasing at the rate of 1,000 gallons a month. Theodora is mapping plans to distribute the water over an eleven state Western area, hopes soon to tap a nationwide market. Says she: while the stuff is fine for children's teeth, "it also goes wonderful with Scotch...
...valuable adjunct to streptomycin. It is no good against miliary (generalized) or meningeal tuberculosis, where streptomycin is most effective. It is "most impressive" in tuberculous laryngitis and enteritis. While its usefulness against pulmonary tuberculosis is not yet clear, it will probably be given along with streptomycin; doctors hope that Tibione, like P.A.S., will help prevent the growth of tubercle strains which learn to resist streptomycin...