Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tight French defenses on the Morice Line had been partially flooded, and the rebels had slipped through them the day before from a Tunisian base camp, carrying money and supplies to reinforce rebels hiding in Algeria's Kabylie Mountains. They obviously hoped, by a bold stroke, to counter the growing impression (TIME, June 22) that the tide had turned against them in Algeria. But at dawn a French armored-car patrol spotted the rebels, and within an hour more than 3,000 French troops had encircled the tiny orange grove...
President of the U.S. at a Montreal air-force base last week. The two heads of state made the great occasion human and informal. "This is a very great honor to see you again," said Dwight Eisenhower. "So good to see you," murmured the Queen. Then, along with Mamie Eisenhower and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the heads of state moved off by automobile to dedicate a project that in size and conception is "man's utmost"-the St. Lawrence Seaway...
Trujillo's government announced that Trujillo himself went to the Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
...gain has been the result of massive diversion of manpower to industry, a regimented movement roughly similar to the voluntary exodus to the cities that took place in the U.S. in the late 19th century. In short, Russia started its industrialization much later and on a much lower base, is naturally growing faster than the more mature U.S. economy...
Heart of the new plan is a substantial increase in the base pay to 60% of total executive pay last year. Homer's new salary would be $306,749. On top of that, instead of a regular bonus, he and other executives would get special "dividend units," computed on the size of earnings and dividends, entitling them to receive dividends on the same basis as stockholders until 15 years after they retire (or to their estates if they died). Initially, these dividends would be small (e.g., Homer's share, based on 1958 figures, would have been only...