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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indefinitely any diplomatic recognition of Communist China. Eventual recognition (which does not mean moral approval) will be an essential step in any effort to support the American position in China. To withhold recognition, beyond the time when our State Department is able to work it out, would be to sell out our business firms trading with China, to desert the 1500 American missionaries still in the field, to surrender a century's investment of good will, and so play into Russia's hands. John K. Fairbank Professor of History

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Explains His Stand | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Du Pont finally found its long-sought competitors in Olin Industries, Inc., one of the biggest U.S. makers of cartridges, military small arms, and sporting rifles. Du Pont will sell Olin licenses on all Cellophane patents. Du Pont will also design and build a plant with a capacity of 33 million pounds of Cellophane a year on a fixed fee basis, and then help train Olin's personnel to get the operation started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wrapped in Cellophane | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...were wiped out of her life, but Adriana met terror, as she met all adversity, with a forthright philosophy: "I thought how [my baby] would be the child of a murderer and a prostitute; but any man in the world might happen to kill someone and any woman might sell herself for money; and what mattered most of all was that he should have an easy birth and grow up strong and healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Love or Money | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...thinks Yale may sell all its 42,000 tickets and the 4,000 it got back from the H.A.A. too. But Yale's ticket selling has been about ten per cent below the normal level for this whole season, Perkins said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Game Ticket Sales Hit New Low for Classic | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...Haven Railroad has added something new this year to Yale game ticket-selling by buying a batch of tickets in the Yale section. The railroad will try to sell the tickets to its patrons, who will be able to buy admission and transportation to the game all at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Game Ticket Sales Hit New Low for Classic | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

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