Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical works, the U.S. had shone. Before the war, the Philippines had over 3,500 miles of first-class roads, a modern educational program, and the largest duty-free market in the world. Filipino health was about, the best in the Orient: in 35 years, cholera, smallpox and bubonic plague had been wiped out; the population had increased from seven to 16 million, and the average height of the "tao" (John Doe) from...
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Passage to the Orient was likewise impossible to get except on freighters, but the American President Lines hoped to start sending converted transports to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila in June. The Matson Navigation Co. planned to resume sailings to New Zealand and Australia as soon as its four "white ships" (the Matsonia, Monterey, Lurline and Mariposa) are returned and reconverted from troop carriers, probably...
...eminent Oriental scholar and art historian, Warner has traveled extensively in the East on expeditions for the University, the Smithsonian Institute and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His most recent trip was in 1938 when, as head of the San Francisco Exposition's Pacific arts exhibit, he traveled over much of the Orient collecting objects of art which were to be loaned to the exposition...
...Filipinos in happier days, the Government-owned Manila Hotel had been something-something more than a big, square, sturdy building, usually brimming with Americans and noisy with their doings. To Manilans it was the "Grand Hotel of the Orient" and they were proud of it as a symbol of Manila's progress. Its penthouse was the residence of General Douglas MacArthur and a floor or two below, in an apartment overlooking the harbor, lived Admiral Tommy Hart, commander of the U.S. Asiatic fleet...