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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...master of fabulously wealthy Manchuria, the chief prize in the treasurehouse of the "greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." When the war ended, the great trading empire was shattered. Gone also were four-fifths of the Japanese merchant ships that had carried her trade. Eighty-one million people (increasing at the rate of about one million a year) were bottled up on the overcrowded islands of Japan in a space hardly capable of supporting 50 million. The disaster, which Japan had richly earned, was compounded by a U.S. policy which was designed to keep Japan forever from waging another...
...They had come from all over Spain, to claim title not to a castle in Spain, but to a castle in America. All were armed with "proof" that they were descendants of an 18th Century Spanish diplomat and his English wife who left a U.S. fortune estimated at $300 million-part of which included the land on which the White House stands...
Latino arsenals would get no more than the surplus material, originally worth $112,200,000, which the U.S. Army had rationed out to them at knockdown prices as low as 10? on the dollar after World War II. Of the total, the biggest amount ($20.3 million worth) went to Mexico, followed by Chile ($19.9 million), Brazil ($19.5 million) and Cuba ($15.6 million). Argentina got only $5.7 million...
...reward for 40 years of stainless service at sea, Captain Douglas R. V. Lee was given command of the $12 million Royal Mail liner Magdalena. A silent, broad-shouldered man of 59, Captain Lee planned to make two voyages in his spanking new 17,500-ton ship, then retire. After that, said his wife: "My business will be him, and his business...
Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, who talks with a bit of a brogue picked up during 21 years in Ireland (eleven of them as Chief Rabbi), flew to the U.S. as Chief Rabbi of Israel, to help with the $250 million fund-raising campaign of the United Jewish Appeal...