Word: theres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a peremptory cable from the master of a U.S. freighter: "Was my entry Shanghai legal or illegal: if illegal, I request notice. If legal, insist upon suitable protection." The freighter Sir John Franklin was the second to be fired on in the past two weeks, while trying to...
Dean Acheson tried to give an answer of sorts at his weekly press conference. The U.S. did not recognize the Nationalist blockade, he said, because the Nationalists could not make it effective. But the State Department wished fervently that U.S. ships would quit trying to run the blockade. Acheson added...
Last week, as Thomas sailed contentedly back to the good old U.S.A. on the Queen Elizabeth, there could be no doubt that he had given whole nations in Europe a deeper insight into the manners and mental processes of the American legislator.
In all, more than 100 Congressmen and some 30 Senators went abroad, trailed by almost double that many clerks, aides, wives & children. One group of four went on going right around the world. While most went to Europe, there were also expeditions to the Far East, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico...
At first blush, it was hard to believe that there could be much wrong with life in Richland, Wash., the Atomic Energy Commission's model residential city for the big Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from...