Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategists at Quebec (see U.S. AT WAR) debated how best to speed the end of the war in the Orient, the war in the Orient went on. Many people remember the Allied military catastrophes of 1942; few knew that another occurred last week. TIME Correspondent Teddy White describes the debacle in which the Japanese drove Claire Chennault's air force from its principal advance base in South China...
Cooperating institutions in the Harvard organization are the Sino-Indian Institute, which specializes in the study of Indian philosophy and Buddhism, and the afore-mentioned Yenching University, which has one of the largest libraries in all of the Orient...
...captain began to tell how he sold cosmetics for Max Factor all through the Orient before the war. Then, as if something clicked in his mind, he reverted to the story of the evacuation of Hengyang...
Yanks in the Orient let the men of the Rescue Squadron speak for themselves. There were no dramatics, no suspense. But the plain voices of U.S. airmen doing a job had impressive authenticity...
Undoctored Reporting. The reason for Yanks in the Orient is Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell's desire that the U.S. public understand his theater's physical barriers and painful supply problem. He called for some professional radiomen. He got Lieut. Finis Farr, writer, late of the MARCH OF TIME and Mr. District Attorney, and Lieut. Bert Parks, ex-CBS-NBC announcer, and a mobile recorder. Lieut. Colonel Paul Jones, onetime Don Lee, Mutual Networker, who had been with Stilwell for two years, was made head of the project...