Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star Over China); his wife Nym Wales (Inside Red China); John Alexander, secretary to British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr; and Shanghai Municipal Council's factory inspector, Rewi Alley. Their conclusion: China's only military skill was in small, mobile, spontaneous units; why not build China's economy in similar units-develop a guerrilla industry? John Alexander broached the idea to his boss. Sir Archibald was enthusiastic, at once took the plan to Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung. They, too, were keen. Dr. Kung allotted $2,000,000 (Chinese...
...pray their labor may not be in vain and that their victory will open the way toward the new world we are endeavoring to build-that hate-free, greed-free, fear-free world for which every one of us longs." Secret will be kept the date on which the new Governor General will sail to Canada this spring...
Last week the Provincial Attorney General sorely vexed Ottawa, London and Washington by burbling, "If the United States want to build the St. Lawrence waterway, by all means let us join them...
...pieces shown, many would have looked well on a moonlit night behind a fishpond, half covered with ivy. None bore the Whitney Museum's excellent lighting with enough distinction to turn a critic's head. The medal-winner: a reddish marble mother toting a limp child whose build resembled that of a miniature track champion. The sculptor: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, lady bountiful to the Whitney Museum and the National Society of Sculptors...
Because "this country is so diverse . . . that one's simply got to move about to build up a composite picture," Richard Gardiner Casey, Australian Minister to the U. S., an experienced pilot, purchased a plane for a series of air jaunts out of Washington. Said he jovially over tea at the Legation: "They'll be friendly air raids, of course...