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Mine Coal With Bayonets? Also swinging a cane, wearing a Florida tan, President Truman stepped out of his plane and went to the White House to confer with his advisers. Harry Truman, who had made the decisions which had precipitated the battle and had directed it step by step, faced the most suspenseful week of his year and a half in office. Men close to him said that he was determined not to give...
...sleepy days slipped by the President's tan deepened; he toured the island by automobile, took morning walks past semitropical flowers, spent lazy evenings on the yacht. At week's end he was considering prolonging his visit, returning to Washington by plane at the last possible minute...
...Physically, he was taking the strain well-his personal physician, Lieut. Colonel Wallace H. Graham, said: "At 62, the President has the body of a man of 40 and the reactions of a man 20 years younger." In 14 months, he had gained ten pounds, a deep tan and the resiliency of second youth. But mentally he needed a rest, and he wanted it without "traveling like a circus...
...years Mohamed Ali Jinnah had kindled the fires of civil war with his slogan "Pakistan or die!" Last week, as tan dust swirled through New Delhi on the year's hottest day (112°), it was up to Jinnah to cool off his Moslem League...
...people. Formosa made Japan the world's fourth sugar-producer; it yielded enough rice to feed all the Mikado's armies as well as coal and tin, gold, silver and copper; teak and camphor (70% of U.S. mothballs) and aromatic Oolong tea. At mountain-ringed Jitsu-Getsu-Tan-Lake of the Moon and Sun-the Japanese built the nucleus of a power system that put Formosa industrially ahead of the Philippines...