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...energy was absorbed. For Sheng Shih-tsai, the problem was simple. He represented the minority race in a vast region surcharged with racial and religious tension; his immense fear of Japanese imperialism grew as Japan drove farther and farther into the heart of Asia. Without help, he could not maintain himself. Thus, from 1934 to 1942. he leaned ever more heavily on the U.S.S.R...
...literary immortality that she willed that her Stratford-on-Avon estate be preserved as a shrine-"the home of a great English novelist." Preparations were begun last week, 19 years after her death, to auction the place off because royalties from the Corelli books have not been enough to maintain it. With it goes a genuine gondola which she imported (with a gondolier) from Venice...
...system, in looking for positive ways for the Government to help stabilize the business cycle. He concluded with a tax question containing its own answer: "Why not leave at home, for expenditure by the individual, income that otherwise would have to be pumped out again in order to maintain high employment...
...record for a strong merchant marine after the war. But the Maritime Commission's team of Admirals Emory S. Land & Howard L. Vickery have made it clear that this goal is no threat to any other maritime power. The most that U.S. shipowners hope for is to maintain a fleet large enough to carry at least 50% of U.S. water-borne commerce. That, for a nation which by the end of 1944 will have built 50 million tons of ships in seven years, seems like a reasonable objective to "Jerry" Land...
...first three years of the war, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal's scholarly dictator, had to maintain a correctly meek attitude in the presence of saber-rattling Germany, dagger-rattling Italy, jack-knife-rattling Spain. Now Italy is knocked out, Spain is trying to scramble out from under, Germany's saber is busy parrying the slashes of Portugal's potential allies...