Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II made this arrangement impossible, forced President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King to devise the Hyde Park agreement. Under it the U.S. pledged itself to purchase sufficient Canadian raw materials, place enough U.S. contracts in Canada, to balance Canada's purchases in the U.S. This scheme has worked so favorably that Canada is now able to repay the U.S. in her own dollars for U.S.-built extensions to the Northwest airway to Alaska (TIME, March...
Washington College Park...
...newspaper on the field would find himself supplied with ten times as much light as he would get from an ordinary reading lamp. If otherwise distributed, the lamps in the clusters atop the lofty towers would light a 447-mile highway. The 615 lamps in the Brooklyn ball park, for example, furnish the equivalent of 92 million candlepower. The cost of operation is approximately the same as it would be for lighting 1,500 homes for the same length of time...
...Last year Bishop Chen baptized the Generalissimo's second son, Captain Chiang Wei-kuo. 29. *Three weeks ago Retired Bishop Gowdy now living at Winter Park, Fla., received the Special Order of Brilliant Stars medal from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
...never got a scratch. In London a bomb passed through his apartment down to the basement; there were no casualities. No Pulitzer or other prize has ever come to him. Says he: "But once I won a Kewpie doll, throwing rings around a cane at Berlin's Luna Park...