Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right? Both, reporters learned after some digging and piecing together. Wilson was talking about long-term prospects. Some of the Administration's military planners are trying to sell the President a new defense plan. Under this plan, the U.S. contribution to peacetime overseas forces, both in Europe and Asia, would consist mostly of forces armed with atomic weapons.† The planners believe that strategic and tactical atomic weapons-largely airborne-will eventually outmode conventional land warfare. Hence, ultimately the U.S. could cut down on its overseas divisions while still contributing heavily in planes and atomic bombs...
...Fresh Start? What is the point, the neutralist asks, of going into past history-who began the trouble in this place or in that? What matters is the future. Why not, then, make a fresh start under the auspices, in Asia, say, of Mr. Nehru, who has demonstrated his anti-Communism at home by adopting harsh police measures against local Communists, and, at the same time, has managed to keep on good terms with Mao Tse-tung? And in Europe who more fitting than Sir Winston Churchill to meet Malenkov, as he has proposed, and hammer out a modus vivendi...
TAPANESE planemakers, who once turned out 28,000 aircraft a year, are tooling up again. They have been granted rights to build such U.S. planes as the Beechcraft T-34 trainer and the Bell Model 47 helicopter, expect to find markets for the planes in Asia...
...boosted milk production as much as 400% in a few years, increased land values as much as 300%, and caused a drop in fresh-milk prices of as much as 500%. But Carnation has also run into some troublesome folklore. For example, in Africa and Asia, natives got the idea that drinking evaporated milk caused impotency. Not until World War II, when Australian and American soldiers conclusively proved this was not true, did the myth...
With the exception of Glenn Burris, the Caliph, the other performers match Drake's buoyancy very well. Henry Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fancourt's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wisely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than In Central Asia,Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan Diener, as the Wazir's crrant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a smutty little horror called...