Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things) that you collect out here. We have pared our operating essentials (clothes, household equipment, etc.) to a minimum and sent some of our things south against the possibility of looting in Shanghai should the city's fall become imminent. A neighboring correspondent and his wife, who plan to stay, got a new Ford automobile the other day as a gift from an evacuating Chinese family who couldn't take the car along with them. Then they got a grand piano in the same fashion. Now they're dazedly talking about the ill wind of evacuation...
...after being spotted by the B17. The Privateer's pilot, about 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu, was all ready to turn back; he had gone on only because the navigator had asked for eight more minutes of flight on the same heading to save altering his flight plan...
...Voted, 40 to 6, in favor of the "majority" (U.S.-backed) plan for world control of atomic energy, kept the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission alive in the hope of finding something acceptable to Russia...
...till after I graduate," said Vag. "You see, I'd like to see my name in Latin. But you understand, I want to come back for my twenty-fifth Class Reunion, for at that time I plan to make my big Gift to the University. With a leave of absence, I'll be sure of coming back...
Such shifts away from cities have already been in progress in several parts of the country and, to a small extent, in Boston, the speakers said, adding that the decentralization plan is far superior to city-housing projects that concentrate on tall buildings to accommodate increasing populations. Skyscraper dwellings are especially undesirable for families with children, it was noted...