Word: returns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...giveaway quiz show. They trooped to Lake Success, jammed the Security Council chamber, the corridors and other conference rooms (where television sets relayed the proceedings a few feet away). Some 23,000 requests for tickets had to be turned down. Among those who came to see the Russians' return to U.N. was Margaret Truman, who squeezed into the press gallery with a party of six. "History," she said, "may be made here today...
Each miniature set, Sarnoff said, could be equipped specifically to pick up Voice of America broadcasts. The whole project would cost about $100 million; in return the Voice of America would get a potential audience of 250 million. Facing the TV cameras, Sarnoff cautiously added: "There are a number of ways to get them into the satellite nations, and even into Russia, but I think perhaps I should not discuss those ways in an open forum...
...Aces" and 24 all-cargo vessels clear five ships from New York every week. In 1949 American Export completed 160 voyages, carried autos, lubricating oils, tires and EGA foodstuffs to the Mediterranean and India, hauling more than half of all U.S. ocean cargo to that area. Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco. From its 1,490,548 tons of freight and 13,337 passengers, American Export rolled up a $5,900,000 profit. American Export, already closest rival of U.S. Lines for U.S. transatlantic passenger supremacy, hopes to clinch...
...governor sold liquor and encouraged his charges to get drunk. For a price, a prisoner could get a drink of water, have his manacles removed, or sleep with a woman. "Even the prisoners themselves imposed a charge for what they called 'chummage'" upon a newcomer, in return for which he could have a seat near the fire...
With Douglas MacArthur in Formosa, imagination would not be lacking. K.C. Wu himself, who has an amazing capacity for believing the best of the U.S., has never doubted that the U.S. would help the Nationalists. He speaks with resounding confidence of a Nationalist return to the Chinese mainland within a year...