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There are two big new facts about the U.S. and international oil. One was widely publicized last week, one was still in the realm of whispering Washington dope-but the two were closely interwoven. The facts...
...issued a ringing challenge: Manipur would resist the Jap to the last man. The young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India, have long known Manipur for the finest pheasant shooting east of Suez...
What Statesman Law calls "Commonwealth" practically all Britons call, without shame, "Empire." Colloquially, the Empire includes: 1) the Dominions of the Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Eire); 2) the colonies and protectorates (Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, etc.); 3) India-the only realm of which George VI is actually Emperor. Total population: 557,000,000. (The world's population...
Jean puts showmanship into her work. In a realm of slacks, grease-coated sweaters and tin hats, she scrambles up & down hull scaffoldings in swank feminine regalia. In the bedlam where tankers, invasion craft and baby flattops are put together she is "Hiyah, Jeannie" or "Hello, Journal.''' At the Albina yards she got another name-"The Hat." The hat is a high-crowned mink job, which she made herself...
Prime evidence of the new Government-business accord came in a full-dress press release from President Harold L. Ickes of the Petroleum Reserves Corp. Taking PRC out of the mystery-story realm at last, he told the world that the U.S. Government, on military advice and with the full approval of the oil companies involved, plans to build a huge, 1,000-mile pipeline (estimated cost: $130,000,000-$165,000,000) from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean...