Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighty-four-year-old Adolph ("Joe") Sabath of Illinois, dean of the House, coasted in for his 23rd consecutive term on Capitol Hill...
...movies go, New York is definitely having a substandard weekend. Now features at the big houses are American Guerilla in the Philippines (Astor), starring Tyrone Power and Michelin Prelle; King Solomon's Mines (Radio City Music Hall), with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger; Robert Taylor in Devil's Doorway (Capitol); All About Eve (Roxy); and J. Arthur Rank's Prelude to Fame (52nd Street Trans...
R.O.K. commanders in the northwest claimed that the enemy punch had been delivered by Chinese Communist troops brought down from Manchuria. But with or without Chinese aid, the North Koreans were still capable of making trouble. The R.O.K. Capitol Division, moving up Korea's northeast coast, ran into aggressive enemy resistance backed by artillery. The R.O.K. 3rd Division, driving in from the coast toward the Pujon and Changjin Reservoirs, two major sources of North Korea's hydroelectric power, reported that a strong Red Force was assembling near Changjin, 40 miles south of the Manchurian border...
...east coast the R.O.K. Capitol Division drove into Songjin, a seaport and rail center 75 miles southeast of the Manchurian border, but were stalled a few miles farther north by 2,000 Reds. In the Pujon-Changjin area 10,000 Reds started a drive southeast along the flank of the R.O.K. 3rd Division, headed toward the east coast city of Hamhung, 60 miles north of Wonsan. The Communists were only 30 miles northwest of Hamhung, and threatened to knife in between U.N. forces advancing north of Hamhung and the U.N. base at Wonsan...
...below Kojo to form the southern arm of a pincers closing in on the "Diamond Mountain Gang." Other U.S. Marines were pushing north from Wonsan toward Hamhung. At Hamhung the Marines might face a bitter fight to keep open supply lines to the R.O.K. I Corps (the 3rd and Capitol Divisions) and to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore with the Marines at Wonsan, the 7th Division had landed at Iwon to save itself an overland trip north...