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Soldiers' letters to us showed grave concern with "what people back home think." Scrawled in pencil across odd bits of notepaper, these letters bore the urgency of men at war. "The subject," wrote one sergeant, "is too grim to permit delay...
...lawyer showed the investigators a promissory note for $150,000 made out to one C. C. Hagerman of Muscatine, Iowa. It bore notations of payments on its back; the last, for $28,000, was entered on Sept. 12, 1949. The note was marked "Paid" and bore the initials "C.T.C." The sleutHs obtained a photostatic copy and departed...
...ordered the seizure of all American assets in China (estimated at more than $100 million worth of mission and business properties). Peking's propagandists hew to the hate-America, love-Russia line. A striking visual example was the recent Red China anniversary parade in Peking. Ranks of marchers bore aloft portraits of Mao (TIME, Nov. 6), and news pictures of the spectacle were apparently released for domestic propaganda. Other marchers carried images of Stalin. Pictures of these latter were sent to Moscow, and reached the West through Sovfoto, the Russian newspicture agency...
...stabiles, so called because they stand still, were sprawling things made of wire, wood and interlocking cast-iron sheets. One of them looked like a snow plow, bore the proud title...
...vehicle production is also negligible. At year's end the U.S. had only 1,000 tanks on order, and was producing only a small number of combat vehicles. Despite all the Washington talk of stratospheric increases in arms production, the cold figures on orders and published estimates hardly bore them...