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Next Question? In Washington, the Fish & Wildlife Service pondered a query that turned up in the mail: "How can I get help to open the overland cycle trade from the inland tide water of the Atlantic to the growth crest creedet of the Pacific? I discovered the oval location of growth...
...minute, leaving the evacuees and their baggage waiting at the Shanghai docks. Last week in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson decided to call it quits: all plans for a sea rescue from Shanghai were off. He would, he said, ask the Communists to let the Americans travel overland to Tientsin or Hong Kong and try to get private shipping facilities from there...
...continental interior. The majority of the British, intensely preoccupied with the continued development of their maritime commercial empire, opposed westward expansion. Yet a small group led by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wrote prophetically of the extraordinary agrarian possibilities of the interior as well as its importance as an overland route to the Pacific...
Also slated to appear are Brooks Stevens, consultant for Willys-Overland, and Gorden Florian; designer for General Electric Company...
When his good and wealthy friend, Willys-Overland Executive Ward Canaday, asked him to attend a businessman's dinner party at the Statler Hotel last week, Harry Truman obligingly agreed. He was under the impression that no more than 15 or 20 men would attend, and that he would not be obliged to speak. At dinnertime, he got into his dinner jacket, slipped quietly over to the hotel for a few hours of comfortable relaxation...