Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industry required trade. With whom could the Japanese trade? And could they achieve sufficient trade, by any means, to maintain their population without outside doles forever? SCAP was looking for an answer to the first question, at least, last week. For the first time since the occupation began, SCAP trade missions (including Japanese) were out digging up orders. In New Delhi the missioners got a warm welcome. They were garlanded with roses and handed jasmine bouquets; Premier Nehru sent "greetings and good wishes" to the Japanese people. India wanted textile machinery and was willing to give coal, jute...
...China, Manchuria, Korea? The question reminded the men of SCAP that the answer depended on more than the enmity or forgiveness of those peoples. So long as large areas of those countries were Communist battlefields, there would be little chance of restoring trade. Japan might (for a while) continue to subsist on U.S. doles, a prostrate ward. But its long-range prospects as a free nation would be hopeless...
Many French Canadians were asking that sort of question. In the cities, Quebeckers have always been proud of the purity of their tongue; they bristle when English-speaking visitors call it a patois. Once.it seemed that improved communications (newspapers, the radio and movies) would flatten out regional differences brought by the settlers from Normandy and Brittany, Aunis and He de France. Instead, better communications sped corruption of the language, mainly by "barbarous" Anglicisms...
...earth's magnetic field. As Dr. Simpson's plane flew north, he could tell its latitude fairly accurately by his neutron-counting instruments. But he would not say whether variations in the "neutron field" could be used to steer guided missiles around the earth. "This question," he said, "is being investigated...
...luxury to his portrait of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller. John had hesitated at first to accept that commission because of Fuller's part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. ("Would his share in the tragedy invalidate him as a subject for my brush?") The question did not trouble him long...