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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Imam's capital is Sana, an almost impregnable city (pop. 40,000), which had a 20-story building 19 centuries before" New York. There, in the hot morning sun, the Imam sits under the Tree of Justice before the palace gates, a soldier holding a royal umbrella over him while he dispenses direct and parsimonious judgments to his subjects. Most of them accept his word as the Koran's law but, just to be sure, the Imam keeps as hostages 4,000 sons of chieftains and bureaucrats...
Under this SCAPitalism, U.S. markets are in no danger of being flooded with cheap Japanese toys, Christmas-tree lights, pottery, etc. Japan's initial exports will be largely from stocks accumulated during the war-80,000 bales of raw silk, 75,000,000 yards of mixed fabric, 1,500 tons of tea, nearly 1,000,000 grams of cultured pearls. Small amounts of silk, tea and such lesser items as agar-agar (a gelatinous substance extracted from seaweed) may reach the U.S. this year. But most Japanese goods now available for export are suitable only for nearby Asiatic...
...Blue Snow, when the Pacific Ocean was frozen clean over, he supplied the country with the standard grade of white snow hauled from China by Babe, his blue ox. But Paul was a lumberman at heart. One day while he was combing his beard with a pine tree, he invented mass production in the logging business...
Curled around the ankles of his 'Cliffedwelling mistress, the three year old Franz expressed satisfaction with co-education, joint education, general education and education in general. His only criticism of college life was the notable absence of a course in tree surgery...
Archbishop Joseph Mindszenthy left behind him in Budapest mobs (probably Communist-led) which had demonstrated against him with placards reading: "Mindszenthy wants a kingdom. Hang him on a tree." The Archbishop, said Hungarian Minister of Justice Stefen Riesz, "will not be arrested, as the government refuses to make a martyr of him, as he strongly desires...