Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observations: "Military agreements will be carried out. . . . The situation is most encouraging. . . . Last month and the next two are the most critical months in the history of China for the next 50 years." At week's end the General took off on a 12,000-mile hop to Washington. There he would tell President Truman and Congress how the U.S. could provide concrete assistance to China in her critical months. The principal item on his list of recommendations would be a generous loan to help finance China's reconstruction...
...slanted hat, sharp tux and cocked eyebrow, and still France's No. 1 music-hall darling, set himself for a round-the-hemisphere tour in a one-man show. The greying song-&-dance man would tour the Alps first, then go to Buenos Aires and Rio, then hop to Canada. Then, if his plans panned out, he would do a coast-to-coast tour...
...Milne reported that little-gold-head Christopher Robin, his son and the subject of his verses (When We Were Very Young), hopes soon to go hoppity-hoppity-hop out of the British Army and into Cambridge...
...last Olympic Games (1936) were held in Berlin. This time the Germans will probably not even be allowed in the hop, skip & jump. Last week the International Olympic Committee chose London for the next Games (XIIth Olympiad). Date: 1948. Probable grounds: the cramped Wembley Stadium, whose seating capacity (42,000) is less than half as big as the last two Olympiad scenes. Still unsettled: 1) what to do about Russia's semi-pro athletes, whose victories are rewarded in cash by the Soviet Government; 2) whether to invite Italy (Germany and Japan are specifically outlawed until they can demonstrate...
Lumbering Pan American Airways clippers make the New York-to-Lisbon run in 24 flying hours with stops at Bermuda and the Azores. This week one of Pan Am's sleek new Constellations made the New York to Lisbon flight nonstop on a survey hop. Time: 9 hours, 58 minutes. Speed: 344 miles an hour...