Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more united than it had for two years. That the West's position in Berlin was militarily untenable if the Red army attacked was no new discovery. The Russians have known for two years that they could take Berlin-and much more. What deterred them was not Western strength on the spot, but the strength they feared the West could and would mobilize...
...would not come to that. But the U.S. and Britain (if it continued to arm Arab states) might easily drift into fighting each other by Jewish and Arab proxies: Or, if Britain joined the U.S. in sanctions against the Arabs, the last chance of winning Arab friendship for the Western powers might be lost. The sole winner, in either case, would be Russia...
...college professor really used up at 65, when most are put out to pasture? Professor Laurens H. Seelye, of Robert College in Istanbul, discovered that one western U.S. university lists 60 living professors emeritus.* Some must still have their wits about them, he thought; must their talents go to waste...
More Fax. Western Union drew a bead on 3,000 U.S. business offices: its new Desk-Fax (for facsimile) machines, now in production, will send and receive messages in a direct tie-in with the nearest Western Union central office...
...which now amounts to about $145,000,000. The bit is leased, not sold, and accounts for some 75% of the rock bits used in drillings all over the world. The present Hughes enterprises include Hughes Aircraft at Culver City, Calif.; Hughes Productions (movies); a controlling interest in Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., and a brewery, the largest in Texas. There is an exceedingly large but unknown amount of cash out of which Howard Hughes paid for his RKO stock. The net income of Hughes Tool, the parent company, is estimated at $8-10,000,000 a year, but since Howard...