Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After suffering the worst war depredation of any nation in Southeast Asia, Burma in nine years of independence has managed to restore its national output to less than 90% of what it was before World War II. Because of the civil warring, there are 3,000,000 fewer acres of farmland under cultivation, despite an ambitious development plan inaugurated by the government four years...
...British annexed the adjoining deep-water port of Aden, which lies in the extreme southeast corner of the Arabian peninsula, and later staked out a 112,000-sq.-mi protectorate in the area around it. After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Aden became (and will be again when the Suez Canal reopens) an important fueling port and naval station on the trade route to India, Southeast Asia, Australia and East Africa. The British are determined to keep...
...final lecture on "America's Impact on a Changing World," the British specialist on economic development and current visiting lecturer on Government advocated a spirit of "adjustment and adaptability" toward the problems of Germany, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. This, she felt, could help form "a proving ground of intention to see whether the Soviet side wants to play the game of human survival...
...America should realize that the Communist government of China "is going to be a great power and a greater power whether we like it or not." She said that it was imperative, if Southeast Asia with its border problems is not to become "a cockpit for world war," to explore the chances for a joint Indian-Chinese guarantee. "We do not know whether China will behave," she noted, "but it is difficult to get a guarantee for that behavior unless China is in the United Nations...
...alone is budgeting $80 million for expansion this year to bring its postwar total to $500 million through 1960. Bucyrus-Erie Co. will boost production of excavating gear at South Milwaukee, Wis. and Evansville, Ind. General Motors will break ground this summer for an earth-moving-equipment plant southeast of Cleveland...