Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost tropical country where the river never froze even when the temperature sank to 50 below in the surrounding mountains. Great herds of fat deer and caribou, they said, cropped the green pastures. Last week the tales had grown so fantastic that the Vancouver Sun's columnist, Jack Scott, burlesqued the Nahanni as a "bodyless valley where ripe bananas hang from the boughs of pine trees [and] dusky native girls swim about in the deep, warm pools...
...Scott. What about Germany itself, and how is U.S. policy working there? The Institute heard John Scott, TIME'S bureau chief in Berlin. Among his answers: the people of Germany have "very definitely decided against the Communist ideology...
...characteristic of postwar Russia is its terrible poverty. ... As a result, when the Russian armies came into Germany. . . they took rolling stock, they took railroad rails, they took chickens and cows and pigs. They took doorknobs off the doors and hinges off the windows." The Russians have learned, said Scott, that "if they are going to carry on this kind of a reparation policy they are going to be politically unpopular-and they are politically unpopular." Now, politically, "they have begun to retreat, to adopt a defensive attitude. They have got to this attitude . . . because of the pressure of internal...
...Scott reported that to bring U.S. policy to fruition would cost the U.S. taxpayer at least a billion dollars. "We cannot stay in Germany," said Scott, "and continue to operate as a virtual relief agency. We are feeding Germans at the rate of $200 million to $300 million a year. This will continue indefinitely unless enough money is invested to make a going concern out of the country...
...discovered" Britain (about the 4th Century B.C.) found it already inhabited, and there were Indians to receive the first explorers on the American continent. Antarctica alone, says Stefansson, is "the one continent whose true human discoverers are known"-and at a period of civilization when such men as Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen could be aware of, and set down, the most vital details of their discoveries...