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This meant that some 70,000 Americans could go to Europe this year (prewar high: 260,000). Planes and ships would have room for no more than that, even though at least eight more liners would soon return to service...
...refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain): 'We tolerate the Christians.' At the journey's end I realized how few places there are in the Far East where...
...began as a painter, and still paints for fun, but at 38 he is primarily a historian. Spain's Civil War, the people of Mexico, Manhattan's "Little Italy," the coronation of England's George VI, Paris, and the littered banks of the Marne on a prewar Sunday have all been seized in the enduring glimpses of his camera's glass...
Plans for wholesale revision of the prewar Advocate, together with definite proposals for getting the magazine back into the street were released yesterday by Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47, chairman of the interim committee charged with reviving the publication...
Speaking for the rest of the department, the rescue squad men reported that false alarms, which used to occur fairly regularly in the vicinity of Bow Street have now become "definitely prewar stuff...