Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Revealed, in a terse statement by the U.S. embassy in Taipei, that the U.S. will build a $25 million air base for the Chinese Nationalist government in central Formosa-which the U.S. Air Force will be permitted to use at will. The new field, to be "the most modern" on the island, will be capable of handling B-36 and B-52 bombers, will thus fully transform Formosa into a major strategic bombing base...
...clear, he said, that the West has never been in sight of the 1952 target of 85 military divisions in the central sector of Europe, and that while tactical nuclear weapons and the possibility of an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile had lessened the danger somewhat, they also created great uncertainty as to when, and in what manner, NATO forces would actually be used...
Gaitskell declared that not only was NATO militarily weak, but that "its members have been distracted and divided by a series if events in other parts of the world"--notably in Korea, Formosa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Cyprus--and that "even in Europe itself the central political problem of Germany remains unsolved." The latter, he felt, is particularly dangerous now because of the possibility of a revolt in East Germany...
...building, which is between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and runs from 44th to 45th Streets, is almost ideally located. It is only a short distance from Grand Central Station and from Times Square, and only a brief taxi or subway ride from the downtown financial district...
...friend Nasser has sunk 21 ships, and I wish to God it had been 121." Thus Texas Independent Oil Producer H. P. Nichols hailed Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for blockading the Suez Canal. At the annual banquet of the West Central Texas Oil & Gas Association came more kudos. "As the person who has done the most for West Central Texas oilmen," Nasser was voted the members' "extinguished service" award: a bright pink chamber...