Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week in Washington a worried little group of Britons and Canadians sat down to discuss with their U.S. opposite numbers what measures could be taken to save Britain from economic disaster (see INTERNATIONAL). To much of the U.S., sunny and prosperous in the late summer, the British crisis had an unreal look to it. Many a citizen could only take it on faith that behind the talk of the dollar gap, Britain's inadequate production and devaluation of the pound lay a dire threat to the stability of the Western World. In Washington, where men faced one another...
Ghosts in the Summer. During the war, U.S. bombing strikes destroyed 300,000 of Osaka's houses, left only 10% of its factories working. Now, four years later, Osakans already have built 100,000 new dwellings; 9,300 factories are back in operation, sending steel pipe to Arabia, chinaware to the U.S., locomotives to Russia and Siam, textiles to Nigeria, Hong Kong, Pakistan and the Middle East...
Outside the huge, modernistic kabuki theater, audiences queued up eagerly last week to see the annual ghost play, traditionally presented in the summer on the theory that the chill of a horror story will mitigate the heat (this year's thriller features a Japanese officer who murders his disfigured wife and is stalked by her ghost through two subsequent acts...
Today, whenever he can get away from Ottawa, St. Laurent makes a beeline for Quebec and the family house in the Grande Allée. It gives him a chance to surround himself with his family, of whom he never tires. (On a New Brunswick holiday this summer, the St. Laurent party totaled 27 ?sons, daughters, in-laws and grandchildren.) In Quebec St. Laurent also finds time for golf (over 100), his only sport except flyfishing. At the Royal Quebec Golf Club one day this summer, St. Laurent went out without a caddy. Said one of the pros...
Having decided last spring that Knowsley Hall, the old family seat, would have to pay its own way, the Earl of Derby cheerfully counted up $22,000 in public admissions over the summer to the 400-year-old showplace in Lancashire (Price scale: "adults, 50?; children, 25?). "Next year," promised Lord Derby, "I shall reduce the charge for children...