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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are only 10,000 active Huks, with several hundred thousand sympathizers, among the 20 million Filipinos. But they have caused great damage in the central Luzon plain, the Philippines' rice bowl. They stage daring raids within ten miles of Manila. They have large supplies of firearms, including machine guns and mortars, which they got from the U.S. when they fought the Japanese as guerrillas, or took from the Japanese after the surrender. Last year, Huk Leader Luis Taruc, an avowed Communist, made an agreement with President Elpidio Quirino to register the Huks' arms in exchange...
...realize what went on in the Pacific," the Bull told a reunion dinner of the Greenwich, Conn. "Old Twelfth" Artillery. "I don't think we had more than 500,000 or 750,000 men [out there, but] with those 750,000 we contained somewhere between two and three million Japanese, and notwithstanding the dropping of the atomic bomb-and that was a great mistake-we defeated the Japanese nation...
...Federal Government is preparing to pay out a record $70 million in laboratory fees for medical research in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950. Under the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health hold the strings on the fattest purse, over $46 million, up 25% over last year. Funds for work on heart disease show the biggest jump, from less than...
...publishers have been as prolific as E. (for Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius. In 30 years he has sold more than 300 million of his world-famed Little Blue Books, whose 2,000 volumes range from the Bible, Shakespeare and Aristotle to socialism, psychoanalysis and sex. Haldeman-Julius, an agnostic, has infuriated clergymen and delighted village atheists, but he has probably helped to open as many curious minds as he has helped to frazzle unstable ones. Last week, in the biggest sale of his career, he slashed his famed Little Blue Books from 10? to 6?, in an attempt to unload...
General Motors, one of the biggest single U.S. employers, was acting as if it had never heard the word "recession." First-half profits hit an astronomical $303.7 million, 46% above 1948. The reason: as steel became plentiful this year, G.M. was able for the first time since the war to push its production throttle to the floor board. G.M. intended to keep it there: next week, Chevrolet's Flint plant will add an extra shift to step up production from 480 cars a day to 680. In 1949's second quarter, G.M. had already broken all previous quarterly...