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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the price the U.S. had paid Joseph Stalin at Yalta was a promise that the U.S. would support Russia's bid for a "special position" in Manchuria: control of the South Manchurian Railroad, Dairen and Port Arthur. Told about this deal months later, Chiang Kai-shek reluctantly accepted. Further, when the Russians marched into Manchuria, three days after the atom bomb on Hiroshima, they disarmed the Japanese, then handed the arms to the Chinese Communists. Chiang was not surprised. Even when both he and the Reds were arrayed against the Japanese, Chiang used to say: "The Japanese...
There is, and there must be a tremendous difference between college and professional hockey. The pros are virtually reared on skates, they practice four and five hours a day, and they are paid for their services. Most pass through half a dozen Canadian amateur leagues during their carcers; only 120 at a time hit the top--the National Hockey League...
Members of Dunster House, past and present, paid tribute to former Housemaster Clarence H. Haring last night at a special dinner in his honor attended by President Conant, Provost Buck, and the entire staff of Dunster Associates...
...Harvard Corporation (the five-man board which appoints Harvard's presidents) paid no attention to Sargent's latest squawk...
Steel for Henry. When Henry Kaiser fell out with Cyrus Eaton, his Kaiser-Frazer Corp. lost its big supplier of steel, Eaton's Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel Corp. To plug the gap, K-F last week paid some $3.6 million for the Phoenixville (Pa.) plant of the Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co., which has a capacity of around 26,000 tons a month of finished and semi-finished steel...