Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deadly prattle of machine guns fell silent, like an embarrassed gap in conversation. On Korea's freezing hillsides, U.N. soldiers smoked casually in the open and talked of home. On the 3rd Division's front (see WAR IN ASIA), a lieutenant told his men: "There has been an order for a ceasefire, men. Did you get that? A cease-fire." A front-line Associated Press dispatch from Korea reported: "Orders from the highest source, possibly from the White House itself, brought the ground fighting to a complete, if temporary, halt...
Like most of Asia, in the days before Mossadegh, India lit its lamps and powered its gasoline engines largely with Abadan petroleum. Then Abadan shut down. India, pinched for oil (it had to cut civil air traffic 20%), awakened to the fact that it was refining only about 6% of the oil it consumed...
Pearl Harbor Day, 1951, finds Japan a rising sun once more, and the snow on the manly pine melting fast. The most dynamic, aggressive and industrialized people in Asia are again preparing themselves for the responsibilities and delights of sovereignty. Already the scene is changing. Trim, alert members of the National Police Reserve (nucleus of the army Japan must inevitably raise to defend herself) train with U.S. carbines, mortars, bazookas and light machine guns. The old zaibatsu (financial cliques) are reviving under new names. Recently a dozen offspring of the old Mitsubishi Commercial Co. combined into four large firms...
...Navaho case," Kluckhohn and Vogt believe, "is not unlike many of the problems in Southeast Asia or Africa." The most important thing to be learned from it "is that technical assistance and economic help are not enough." What is needed, they say, is an approach "which sees the problems in their full social and cultural complexity...
...immigrants-mainly from Europe-brought capital, skills and drive. The new immigrants-two-thirds from Asia and Africa-bring no capital and few skills. Fewer than 1% have professions, more than half no craft. Where the new state needs pioneers, able and willing to carve civilization out of wilderness, one-fifth of the newcomers require permanent medical care or state help. The proportion of those who are 60 years or older has tripled...