Word: thailand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring semester, but Secretary Acheson urged him to take on one final mission. This week Envoy Jessup boarded ship in San Francisco for a five-week swing through the Far East to talk to General MacArthur in Japan, visit Korea, Formosa, the Philippines, and end up in Thailand where he will preside over an extraordinary conference of U.S. chiefs of mission in southeast Asia...
...Lincoln, Poet Walt Whitman, Social Worker Jane Addams, Scientist George Washington Carver, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. The first shipment (65,000 copies), on the presses this week in Manhattan, will go to Viet-Nam. Later, 65,000 apiece will be sent to Indonesia, Korea and Thailand...
...immediate shipment of 100,000 Nipponese Bibles, and now 500,000 New Testaments and 400,000 Gospel portions have been sent through American contributions. One World, One Book--this is the philosophy of the Society. They see the dream of world brotherhood grow real as the merchant in Thailand, the German student, the Arabian shiek, and the African Zulu sit down simultaneously to read the words of Luke, ii, 14: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will towards...
...servicemen who had died there during World War II. But few soldiers had ever had a tougher peacetime assignment. Many of China's 3,700 missing U.S. dead had vanished almost without a clue, lay scattered in remote and inaccessible regions from Manchuria to the hot forests of Thailand. The most dramatic example: the 879 men who had died in the wrecks of 468 different airplanes trying to fly the cloud-hung Himalayan Hump...
...through this maze of opinion, Professor Zimmerman will remind you that there are at least a few objective facts about his controversial career: such as being born in Raymore, Missouri, in 1897, attending five universities, having three children, and holding jobs ranging from farming to advising the Government of Thailand on Economic Policy. In this Siamese job, he advocated for the inland regions of the country a corps of "junior doctors" to diagnose and prescribe medical treatment for easily-recognizable tropical diseases. This suggestion caused a tremendous blow-off, and was condemned as a plot to lower medical standards...