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Admitted to a Santa Monica, Calif, hospital for a minor operation, Japan's Shirley ("The Grable of the Orient") Yamaguchi, 24, who had come to Hollywood to learn how to make love, American style, gave the lowdown on love in Japan: "Since the G.I.s came to Japan they have introduced many new customs such as to kiss and smooch and hold each other's neck...
...Orient Division...
...Depression, Friend Pickett put the Service Committee to work on the industrial front, getting relief to the families of textile workers in a bitter North Carolina strike, feeding more than 40,000 children of destitute soft-coal miners. Even now, with 33 teams at work in Europe and the Orient, the Service Committee has earmarked $950,000 to be spent this year in the prosperous...
...giving Pan Am and Panagra a race for their passengers. He set up a Braniff Business Bureau to bring Latin American goods north and export U.S. goods south, offered cut-rate tourist fares. He even drummed up business among Latin America-bound Chinese travelers in the Orient by distributing handbills that were printed in Chinese. On his gross of $18,438,140 last year, Braniff rang up a net profit...
...Northwest's wheat and cattle lands had reached their peak of production; the Wenatchee and Yakima fruit orchards (apples, pears and peaches) had apparently surfeited their market. An early Northwest dream-vast trade with the Orient-had blinked out. In 1950 the slack was being taken up with public money: Boeing's big airplane contracts, the Bremerton Navy Yard, hydroelectric projects and the Hanford plant made the U.S. Government the region's biggest employer...