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...Additional long-term grants running close to $1 billion to bolster China's economy; otherwise the disintegration of China might become so rapid that the U.S. would have to abandon that political beachhead in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Pigeonhole for China | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...first wave of the largest enrollment in University history will make a 1,350-man-beachhead at Mem Hall today staring at 8:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Reaches 311-Year Peak | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...staff was plainly seen as one correspondent after another listed his wartime specialty (tanks, machine guns, field artillery, radar, naval aircraft, naval landing craft, aerial navigation, radio, military laws, etc.) and the places he could be counted on for a "local knowledge" of: Berlin (occupied), Normandy ("especially the beachhead"), Bizerte, Hollandia, Mindoro, Samar-Leyte Bay, Cassino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...beachhead is established by Professor Ivor A. Richard's article on General Education which he defines as "ordered questioning leading to . . . the highest or the deepest questions." From this point the questioning offensive broadens out to include every objective from civil liberties to foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/11/1947 | See Source »

Saskatchewan is socialism's only beachhead in North America. Most Canadians have watched the province closely as a preview of the least that would happen should Canada ever go socialist. What were the chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Socialism's Beachhead | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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