Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communists used their advanced MIG-17 jets to strafe Nationalist Chinese craft trying to reinforce Quemoy. Said Nationalist Chief of General Staff "Tiger'' Wang Shu-ming, "I don't know how much longer we can practice restraint...
...reinforced the Seventh Fleet, already the greatest concentration of fire power ever in the Western Pacific, stripped down the Formosa defense command for action, added supersonic Lockheed F-1048 and the Army's Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles to Formosa's arsenal, then sent Pacific Commander in Chief Admiral Harry Felt to Formosa for conferences and inspection...
...Navy launched yesterday morning a 21 1/2-pound satellite equipped to study weather patterns and cloud cover on the earth. Strong signals were received from the satellite at several tracking stations, but there is doubt in the mind of Vanguard chief scientist John P. Hagan that the satellite is still orbiting...
...NATO chief Paul-Henri Spaak called yesterday for a union of all the forces of the West to win the global struggle with Communism...
Four out of five new homes awaiting sale today are not quality but minimum houses, stripped-down models designed for the null family. Yet into this classification fit only 45% of U.S. families and they are steadily diminishing in number. Last December FHA Chief Mason noted that buyers were putting less than a fifth of their incomes into shelter...