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...Airlift. In Westfield, N.J., the public library requested that townspeople help the library move to its new site by borrowing eight books each, holding them for two weeks...
...though noisily Marxist, has a somewhat jaundiced eye for Communism as a system. Bevan is too much a demagogue to approve a system where demagogery is without influence, too much an opportunist to like a system that demands unquestioning submission to discipline. In the tense days before the Berlin airlift, Bevan was one of the few who wanted to send an armored train through the Soviet blockade to relieve Berlin...
Roads, Docks, Deaths. With ample capital and an assured market, the newly formed Iron Ore Co. of Canada pulled out all the stops to get Ungava into production. I.O.C. President Humphrey coined the slogan "Iron Ore by '54" and geared operations to meet it. A 17-plane airlift flying as many as 96 flights a day began lugging men and freight into the Ungava wilderness to lay out town sites, build power plants and dig ore pits. At a cost of more than 20 lives, a 357-mile private railroad was pushed across rivers and through mountains from Seven...
...French had fewer than 20,000 in Hanoi, 50,000 (mostly shaky Vietnamese) elsewhere in the delta, and they were desperately flying in reinforcements from southern Indo-China and from France and North Africa (via U.S. airlift). Commanding General Navarre reportedly asked Paris for two fresh divisions, yet his officers did their best to appear calm and unconcerned. Said Navarre's top deputy in Hanoi last week: "The situation in the delta is serious, but not desperate." French generals said exactly that during the last days at Dienbienphu...
...actual observing will be done by civilian scientists, U.S. and foreign, coordinated by the American Geographical Society, but the Air Force will finance the costly campaign. It will airlift the scientists to inaccessible sites and supply them with intricate gear and radio time signals. In return, the Air Force hopes to get more accurate information about the shape of the earth and about distances between widely separated points on its surface. Both of these items would be of value in dispatching aircraft or guided missiles to global targets...