Word: eurasian
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Gibbon had planned his operation with care. With food and equipment stacked up in Java and Singapore, Gibbon and 25 oilmen had entered Sumatra soon after war's end. They combed the Japanese prison camps for some 650 Dutch and Eurasian Standard employees. But it was not until the spring of 1946 that Gibbon got his first U.S. shipment of steel and heavy equipment, and was able to begin rebuilding the plant...
During World War II it had been popular to say with the geopoliticians that whoever controlled the Eurasian heartland would dominate the rimlands and the rest of the world. The geopolitical fad had passed, but the fact remained-augmented, by Russia's successes in the war and at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, to ominous power...
These scientists, unlike the more volatile elements in our press, feel that other states--even the advertised Eurasian mind of Russia--will come along if a world peace plan is seriously attempted, as a matter of simple self-maintenance. Their conference over, the scientists are heading back to laboratories that the war-now advocates feel they should never have stirred from. Yet their brief lucid interval of thinking on the problem of our time will quite conceivably prove more worthwhile to the cause of peace than the efforts of the small battalion the press maintains for this purpose...
...Paris, Prince Peter of Greece has announced that he will take up residence in Denmark and devote himself to writing books. He recently completed a book on Eurasian highways. "Royalty," he announced, "is going somewhat out of style these days...
...Nanking dollars to Japanese yen, the fabulously inflated prices unreasonably became reasonable (steaks 50?, silk nightgowns $3). For 15 incredible days the celebration throbbed-firecrackers and kisses, music and laughter. British and U.S. soldiers were surrounded by "saltwater plums" (sailors' girls) from Szechwan Road, and by delicate Eurasian women, warm Russians, big-eyed Hungarians...