Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food seems to be the determinant for London office vacationists, several of whom, like Bureau Chief John Osborne, have already fled to the lusher larders of Switzerland or Ireland. Others will follow, including homesick Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who writes: "A log cabin, a Minnesota lake fringed with evergreens, blue sky, a hot sun, lots of sizzling bacon and fresh (not dried) eggs-those are the main elements of the holiday I'm planning. Reason: they're in short supply here. Transportation should be easy. I leave London in the afternoon, am due to reach Minnesota next evening. Then...
...from Nanking that he has the name of a veteran missionary in Kuling, China's cool summer capital, who may be able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants who serve tea and Chinese chow at thoughtful intervals...
Secretary of State George Marshall hastened back to Washington from the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City. His decision was that the U.S. must back the Truman Doctrine. A plan of operations was put into immediate effect...
After all, the trip was planned partly for the boys, Tom Jr., 14, and John, 11. So last week the Deweys started off from Salt Lake City for a week's sightseeing in Utah, Yellowstone National Park and Wyoming...
...LAKE SUCCESS, July 24--Hopes for a compromise solution of the Balkan problem faded today when Russia turned down French proposals intended to "soften" the American plan for a powerful semi-permanent commission in the Halkans...