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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established an advertising office there and, a year later, began printing TIME in Los Angeles for distribution to the Pacific Coast states and Alaska. At present, 300,000 weekly copies of TIME and 700,000 copies of LIFE are printed in Los Angeles at Pacific Press, the largest printing plant west of Chicago. And, in keeping with the spectacular growth of Southern California, TIME Inc.'s Los Angeles bureau now consists of 25 reporters, photographers, etc. As such, it is second only to Washington, D.C. as our largest and busiest U.S. news bureau...
...statement was just about all the world needed to know about the past, present and future attitudes of the Chinese Communist Party. It wiped out 15 years of "liberal" cant about the tame Chinese Communists. Probably it would effectively silence the British and U.S. Shanghai businessmen who were clamoring to their governments to establish diplomatic relations with the Reds. Mr. Acheson had his answer...
...Charter for the High Commission, published last week, cuts Allied interference in German affairs to a minimum. Except in emergencies, the commission will act only through the federal German government and the eleven Länder (state) governments. Occupation troops remain in their present zones, but henceforth may deal with the Germans only through a Lander Commissioner (appointed by the high commissioner of his zone). The new government will join the OEEC and sign an ERP agreement with the U.S. Instead of the past separate patterns in each zone, occupation policy will become uniform throughout Western Germany...
...year old in May, Israel got exactly what it wanted for a birthday present...
Mexico clung to its present restrictions on foreign exploration, a loan "would be a disservice" to it and the U.S. Since oilmen guessed that Canada, in five years or so, would be one of the world's major producers of oil, it looked as though the longer Mexico waited, the slimmer would grow its chances of developing its oil lands...