Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy, who could bring his highly professional outlook to the top post in the State Department. Or, by way of contrast, Chester Bowles, once Governor of Connecticut and Ambassador to India, is considered a possible Secretary of State who would be an active salesman for American democracy, particularly in Asia...
...Roman Catholic Church is investigating 313 candidates for beatification, the preliminary to sainthood. Rome and Naples lead the field with 56 candidates each. But no fledgling saints are being considered from the whole of the American continent, Asia, Africa or Australia...
...sail, the passengers suddenly unfurled paper signs: "Pate's Paupers," "Love, Cherish and Be Transferred," "Un-American," "Shanghaied." The most cutting of all was a sign emblazoned with the abbreviation of the Marine slogan, "Semper Fi"; next to it was a picture of what Americans in ordure-treasuring Asia called a "honey bucket...
With Nationalist. China crumbling in 1948, Chennault loaded his Shanghai maintenance base onto a converted LST, fled first to Canton, then to Hainan, on to Hong Kong and finally across the Formosa Strait to Formosa, where CAT has stayed ever since. Flying along the perimeter of Red Asia, Chennault and CAT staked their entire future in 1949 on a coup to keep 71 planes of two Chinese national airlines from falling into Red hands. When the crews defected, leaving most of the transports at Hong Kong's airport, Chennault and his friends signed notes...
...China, where CAT pilots buzzed through murderous antiaircraft fire to drop French paratroops, munitions and medical supplies. As a scheduled airline, 60% owned by Nationalist Chinese, 40% by its U.S. backers, CAT flies its 32-plane fleet (DC-35, C-46s PBYs) along 7,000 miles of routes throughout Asia, proudly notes that it has never lost a passenger. Its repair operation (100% U.S. owned) on Formosa currently does 15% of all CAT's business repairing U.S. Air Force planes as well as civilian transports...