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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Formosa, General Sun commands 300,000 troops, is supported by Nationalist China's air force and navy. In numbers, the force seems imposing, but to TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder last week General Sun frankly conceded that he has a tough job of reorganization ahead of him. Only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Report on Formosa | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Signs of Maturity. Protected by the 100-mile-wide Strait of Formosa, separating them from the Communists on the mainland, the Nationalists seem to have a good chance of successfully defending their island redoubt against an assault-providing Formosa's native population does not rise against them. While General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Report on Formosa | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The Rams. Thanks solely to such private contributions, Tecnológico last week was setting the pace for Monterrey, Mexico's fastest growing (pop. 280,000) industrial center (steel, glass, paint). On the tree-shaded, 148-acre campus, some of the 1,365 students were settling down in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: M. I. T. | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

"I was offered a part last month, but ... I was too busy," mused photogenic Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, onetime movie mate of Tarzan and wife of Director John Farrow (Two Years Before the Mast) as she posed for a picture in Hollywood with 6-month-old daughter Stephanie (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tough All Over | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The army's war on human misery in the U.S. is directed from an up-to-date, $2,500,000, twelve-story building on Manhattan's brash and busy 14th Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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