Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus did communism take over Shanghai, half again as big as great Moscow itself, and the most modern city in China. The imperialists had built Shanghai, and when imperialism's day was done, the Chinese had inherited the city only to find it a legacy they could not completely control. The greatest commercial center in Asia was certainly not proCommunist; but it was anti-Nationalist because the Nationalists had not the discipline to master Shanghai's half-Eastern, half-Western soul. The city had the energies of two worlds, and the controls of neither. Now world communism...
...Unzen, Kyushu's beautiful mountain resort, he spotted an odd type of moss growth in a pond. Botanist Hirohito began to wade in after it. His chamberlain tried to restrain him; it was too dangerous. But by this time Japanese photographers had jumped into the pond to take pictures of the Emperor at its edge. "If it isn't dangerous for them," protested Hirohito, "why is it dangerous for me?" Sighed the chamberlain: "If Your Majesty can find a newspaperman's armband to wear, please jump...
...conditions under which Amerika is produced would daunt many another editor. Articles and captions for each Russian issue are written in English in Amerika's twelfth-floor Manhattan offices, then flown to Moscow for translation and censorship. There unpredictable Soviet bureaucrats sometimes take ten days, sometimes ten weeks, to approve an issue before returning it to the U.S. to be printed and shipped back to Moscow. This long, fluctuating deadline means that most stories and pictures must be "timeless Americana." But out of 3,000,000 words, Moscow has deleted only about...
...games. With sport pages of the papers spread before him and the family kibitzing, the fan makes his selections and his bet (from one penny up) in the weekly "pool." Led by the big three-Little-wood's, Vernon's and Copes's-the pools take in a staggering $250 million a year and rank as Britain's seventh industry...
...seven scheduled stops. Chief purpose of the tour: to try once again to whip up enthusiasm for soccer in the U.S., where the game's most rabid admirers* are in such places as St. Louis, Kearny, N.J. and Fall River, Mass. One reason why soccer may never take the U.S. by storm: the peak of the season comes during the winter months when fans prefer to be indoors and more comfortable watching basketball...