Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reform can be completed, South Korea faces immediate dangers. Farm production is not rising rapidly enough to feed 2,000,000 refugees from the north. Korea formerly had a closely knit economy, and both areas now suffer from the fact that the Communists do not permit trade across the border. The $150 million requested by Truman will be used mainly for raw materials and industrial products which formerly came from North Korea...
Meanwhile, the Communists are increasing the military pressure with raids across the border. Brigadier General William L. Roberts, who will head the U.S. military advisory group in Seoul, estimates that 100,000 Korean veterans of the Chinese Communist army have recently returned to North Korea. They will add their strength to 200,000 Soviet-trained Korean veterans...
Despite their peril, South Koreans still hope as well as fear. At Kaesong, a border city which North Koreans often raid (they killed 30 people there last fortnight), I visited the lovely garden of a wealthy Korean. The owner had moved to Seoul months ago, fearing Communists would nab him. But his gardens are perfectly kept. The head gardener, surprised by my surprise at this, explained: "He hopes to come back. What is any garden but an expression of faith in the future...
...Connecticut finishes patching up its highway system from New Haven to the Massachusett's border, there remains only one big missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization...
...speed and safety go, the new road would outclass the old system all the way. Engineers estimate that the 90 miles could be covered in 90 minutes if, as planned, the road were to run uninterrupted from border to border. Like the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, the highway would have a minimum speed law. From the safety angle, speedways are many times less dangerous than winding roads. On the Maine link from Kittery to Portland, for instance, there has been only one fatality since December, 1947--a score of one death for 70 million vehicle miles...